astuter

He was a man whom scarcely any amount of fortune could have benefited permanently, and who was made to be ruined to cheat small tradesmen, to be the victim of astuter sharpers: to be niggardly and reckless, and as destitute of honesty as the people who cheated him, and a dupe, chiefly because he was too mean to be a successful knave.

The History of Pendennis 2006

The individual whose visual organs while the above was going on were at this juncture commencing to exhibit symptoms of animation was as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody that conjectured the contrary would have found themselves pretty speedily in the wrong shop.

Ulysses 2003

His enthusiasm is somewhat cooled by the fact that the British Consulate is uninterested in him and almost ignores him for a period of several months, during which his money runs out and other astuter refugees escape to America.

Arthur Koestler 1946

The individual whose visual organs while the above was going on were at this juncture commencing to exhibit symptoms of animation was as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody that conjectured the contrary would have found themselves pretty speedily in the wrong shop.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

His enthusiasm is somewhat cooled by the fact that the British Consulate is uninterested in him and almost ignores him for a period of several months, during which his money runs out and other astuter refugees escape to America.

Collected Essays 1900

She was not a great help to the minister, because she was not sufficiently flexible and insinuating for her position; but nevertheless they always worked together, and she followed as well as she could the directions of her astuter husband, who, considering his bovine cast, was endowed with quite a preternatural sagacity in the secular business of his profession.

The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872

It was an astuter young Napoleon than Uncle Lawrence knew.

Trumps George William Curtis 1858

His confidant Peacock suggested, from his stage experience, the outlines of a plot, to which Vivian's astuter intellect instantly gave tangibility and coloring.

The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Jasper assented with the insouciant docility by which he always acknowledged Gabrielle's astuter intellect.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Jasper assented with the insouciant docility by which he always acknowledged Gabrielle's astuter intellect.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838