Sentence examples for not shrewd from inspiring English sources

Smith is seen as cantankerous but at least competent (if not shrewd).

None of this, however, means that Clegg's positioning is not shrewd – nor that he will not pick up Labour votes.

The firms to study now, it seems, are the ones that are not shrewd but screwed.Certainly, failure is more fun to read about than success.

As defined by Lionel Trilling, the Young Man from the Provinces "starts with a great demand upon life and a great wonder about its complexity and promise"; he is intelligent but not shrewd; he has learned "something about life from books, although not the truth"; he "stands outside life and seeks to enter".

The power structure is nothing if not shrewd.

It's no crime that Paul isn't shrewder or more sophisticated, but Appelfeld blurs the boy's outline by swaddling him in homilies.

Yet in war he was "decisive, not reckless; shrewd, not foolish".

STILL, Ms. Tam is nothing if not a shrewd businesswoman.

Webb is not very shrewd about playing the outsider's game.

Roberts was said to have improved everything he touched, but he was not a shrewd businessman and died in poverty.

Then, turning to Mr. Pirro, he said, "Al, you're not as shrewd as they say you are".