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{"id": "shrewd", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "shrewd", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English (in the sense \u2018evil in nature or character\u2019): from shrew in the sense \u2018evil person or thing\u2019, or as the past participle of obsolete shrew \u2018to curse\u2019. The word developed the sense \u2018cunning\u2019, and gradually gained a favourable connotation during the 17th century"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/shrewd_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u0283ru\u02d0d"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute"], "examples": [{"text": "she was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind his gesture"}, {"text": "a shrewd career move"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0940880.006", "shortDefinitions": ["having or showing sharp powers of judgement"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "astute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sharp-witted"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sharp"}, {"language": "en", "text": "acute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "intelligent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "clever"}, {"language": "en", "text": "alert"}, {"language": "en", "text": "canny"}, {"language": "en", "text": "media-savvy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perceptive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perspicacious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "observant"}, {"language": "en", "text": "discriminating"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sagacious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sage"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wise"}, {"language": "en", "text": "far-seeing"}, {"language": "en", "text": "far-sighted"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "shrewd", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0013423.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["(especially of weather) piercingly cold"], "examples": [{"text": "a shrewd east wind"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0940880.011", "registers": [{"id": "archaic", "text": "Archaic"}], "shortDefinitions": ["piercingly cold"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["(of a blow) severe"], "examples": [{"text": "a bayonet's shrewd thrust"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0940880.012", "shortDefinitions": ["severe"]}, {"definitions": ["mischievous; malicious."], "id": "m_en_gbus0940880.013", "shortDefinitions": ["mischievous"]}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "shrewd"}], "type": "headword", "word": "shrewd"}], "word": "shrewd"}
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