How do you pronounce shrewdness?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɹuːdnəs/.

shrewdness

/ˈʃɹuːdnəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

"A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent."
"At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it."
"Larry was dragged off by a shrewdness of apes (a group of apes is called a shrewdness)"
"A shrewdness of gibbons will sing together very loudly."
"The ape's own shrewdness inhabits the first tree, and a rival shrewdness inhabits the second"

shrewdnesses (plural)

rudeness