Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a perspicacious manner; with quick discernment.
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- adverb With the power of seeing or understanding clearly; quick-sightedly; with sharp of sight.
- adverb figurative With acute discernment; keenly; with mental perception.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In particular, young Sam is beautifully and perspicaciously drawn as we watch his shock from the death of his mother turn into a protective shell around his feelings.
Holly Cara Price: Love, Loss, and Mystery in Caroline Leavitt's New Novel, Pictures of You Holly Cara Price 2011
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In particular, young Sam is beautifully and perspicaciously drawn as we watch his shock from the death of his mother turn into a protective shell around his feelings.
Holly Cara Price: Love, Loss, and Mystery in Caroline Leavitt's New Novel, Pictures of You Holly Cara Price 2011
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And it is fundamentally distinct from other kinds of motive, as Kant noted so perspicaciously.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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It is better, Professor Roberts perspicaciously suggests, to make Social Security and Medicare a safety net program for the people who really need it, and let richer Americans who can afford it handle their own retirements.
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In many religious gatherings, to openly and perspicaciously question a fundamental assumption would be an embarrassment met with scorn; the questioner patted on the head and told that the questions are endearing but a sign of naïveté.
Steve Hindes: Think for Yourself: Is Science "Just Another Religion"? 2008
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He called it a "writing bent" but as is plain from his autobiography, it might be considered an impulse to speak perspicaciously and openly to the people.
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Melanie Phillips who is peerless in her championing of the depoliticisation of policing has chronicled this decline perspicaciously and in detail.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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His agendas, as so perspicaciously and copiously enumerated will exhibit weakness and encourage our enemies that the U.S. is vulnerable to attack on our shores and overseas.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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For over a decade or more she has perspicaciously and relentlessly addressed the alarming developments in policing across the board, particularly on the subject of drug abuse and its pernicious role in the cultural decline of the West in general and the UK in particular.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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As John Kenneth Galbraith so perspicaciously said, in America it is far better for one's career to be conventionally wrong than to be unconventionally right.
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