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sagacious

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sa·ga·cious  (s-gshs)
adj.
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness. See Synonyms at shrewd.

[From Latin sagx, sagc-, of keen perception; see sg- in Indo-European roots.]

sa·gacious·ly adv.
sa·gacious·ness n.

sagacious
Adjective
Formal wise or sensible [Latin sagax]
sagaciously adv
sagacity n
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Adj.1.sagacious - acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
wise - having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"
2.sagacious - skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and sagacious statesman"
politic - marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"

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Sagacious people I believe like to exercise that faculty.
The capital was furnished by himself he, in fact, constituted the company; for, though he had a board of directors, they were merely nominal; the whole business was conducted on his plans and with his resources, but he preferred to do so under the imposing and formidable aspect of a corporation, rather than in his individual name, and his policy was sagacious and effective.
Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work; and you, my sagacious friend, might with equal profit and pleasure travel through some pages which certain droll authors have been facetiously pleased to call
 
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