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Shrewdly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

2. This practice hath most shrewdly passed upon thee. Obs . Shak .

3. Vexatiously; used of slight mischief .

4. The obstinate and schismatical are like to think themselves shrewdly hurt by being cut from that body they chos not to be of. Obs . South .

5. Yet seem'd she not to winch, though shrewdly pained. Obs . Dryden .

6. Archly; sagaciously; with good guess; as, I shrewdly suspect; he shrewdly observed.