Shrewdly vs Savvy - What's the difference?
shrewdly | savvy |
In a shrewd manner.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
As an adverb shrewdly
is in a shrewd manner.As an adjective savvy is
(informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.As a verb savvy is
(informal) to understand.As an interjection savvy is
(informal) do you understand?.As a noun savvy is
shrewdness.shrewdly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)savvy
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Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.