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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : suh-gey-shuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : səˈgeɪ ʃəs |
Definition of sagacious
Origin :- c.1600, from Latin sagacem (nominative sagax) "of quick perception;" see sagacity. Related: Sagaciously.
- adj smart, judicious
- The sagacious lady may possibly be as curious in this point as her Lovelace.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Yet this vanity may be a mean, perhaps, to overthrow me with this sagacious lady.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- "I know that thing," he muttered to himself, with a sagacious jerk of the head.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- As a statesman he was prudent, wise, sagacious, far-seeing and true.
- Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various
- George was a “deep, sagacious file,” who studied men like books.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- It was just a sagacious, courageous, wily, resolute—animal face.
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- Whatever else they were, they proved to be careful and sagacious leaders.
- Extract from : « The Black Wolf Pack » by Dan Beard
- He was as silent and sagacious as Sarah was talkative and empty-headed.
- Extract from : « The Peace Egg and Other tales » by Juliana Horatia Ewing
- She took an early opportunity of sending this too sagacious rustic to bed.
- Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade
- The Astor plan of investment is one of the safest, most sagacious in the world.
- Extract from : « American Men of Mind » by Burton E. Stevenson
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