Dizionario Polacco - Inglese

przebiegły in inglese:

1. shrewd

Angela is a really shrewd person.

His shrewd move won us a lot of money.

shrewd businessman/investment/eyes

"But she is shrewd enough to know that partisanship would only narrow her audience."

He may be a poor talker and far from shrewd, but I like him all the better for that.

He is shrewd and calculating.

... these estimates were quite shrewd, sophisticated, and(it would...

He was shrewd enough not to take the job when there was the possibility of getting a better one a few months later

shrewd municipal buyers started to scratch their heads

Despite his looks, he can be a very shrewd person.

savvy well-informed and shrewd

I felt her shrewd eyes looking me up and down.

she was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind his gesture

He was too shrewd to leave himself out in the open.

They are shrewd in trade.

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(shrewd) si verifica in set:

8. Describing people: positive andnegative qualities
Egzamin Angielski - 1 semestr handouts
Fiszki z książki - "Goody Two Shoes" (Walter Crane)
Fiszki z książki - "The Life of George Washington ...
Fiszki z książki - "The Nursery, January 1881, Vol...

2. astute

An astute reader should be willing to weigh everything they read, including anonymous sources.

astute politician/decision

It was an astute move to sell the shares then.

He's always been a very astute politician

astute businessman

Unlike some sportsmen, he has been astute enough to invest in a financial future during his playing days. /əˈstjuːt/

He iż cery astute at handling negotiation

He's very astute at handling negotiations.

He's always been a very astute politician and he always give an astute response to my question.

an astute investor/businesswoman

Your perception of the team is very astute.

She gave an astute response to my question

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(astute) si verifica in set:

Fiszki z książki - "Ye Book of Copperheads" (Anony...
angielskie słówka/razor's edge
1 lesson - C1 coursebook
Dawson Functional Occlusion
Mc Williams N. (1999) Psychoanalytic case formulation

3. crafty

He is more crafty than wise.

The Germans are very crafty.

crafty man/plan/look

His crafty mind prepared a plan to defraud his partners.

Jill: They like to be crafty and so, you know, that kind of stuff.

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(crafty) si verifica in set:

1-2 Adjectives (Behaviour and Traits)
Jobs in a workplace - Unit 10
Fiszki z książki - "A Dog Day or The Angel in the ...
Divine 1 zw. czw. Syr 42,15
Fiszki z książki - "Doctor Rabbit and Ki-Yi Coyote...

4. cunning

He's cunning.

a cunning and resourceful criminal

It is said that the fox is more cunning than any other animal.

The fox was very cunning. He waited until the door of the chicken coop was left open and then snuck inside.

That's just how cunning North Korea (and China) is.

He makes believe that he is a practical statesman, but in really he is a cunning politician.

The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.

Time and again they risk their lives in search of cunning new escape routes. Cunning as a fox.

The thief is very cunning, it won't be easy to catch him.

"He was a most cunning and courageous warrior," Thrawn continued.

He's as cunning as a fox. / 2. He thinks he's so cunning. / 3. I admit my cunning plan backfired.

I didn't know that Peter is so cunning.

So he had to think of something much more cunning

I am a cunning because can find a good way out in a difficult situation.

The Parisian police, he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand."

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(cunning) si verifica in set:

Podstawowe cechy charakteru po angielsku
Vocabulary II - Character and Personality
angielski- 3 cechy charakteru, ciało, reakcje ciała
Różności angielskie cz. 2.
As you like it - Shakespeare

5. wily

wily businessman/manoeuvring

wily opponents

The wily cartoon character was always thinking of ways to steal food

A wily hunter, Christopher Columbus once donned a red riding hood and went into the forest. Without a doubt, he attracted the Big Bad Wolf, grabbed him, and dragged the screaming wolf back to his ship.

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(wily) si verifica in set:

words of familiar meaning - adj
Fiszki z książki - "A Book of Nonsense" (Edward Lear)
Fiszki z książki - "Doctor Rabbit and Tom Wildcat"...
Fiszki z książki - "Motor Matt's Make Up or, Playi...
Fiszki z książki - "Miss Heck's Thanksgiving Party...

6. vulpine

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(vulpine) si verifica in set:

Fiszki z książki - "Tales from Gorky" (Maxim Gorky)
Fiszki z książki - "Masterman and Son" (W. J. Dawson)
Fiszki z książki - "The Wire Tappers" (Arthur Stri...
Fiszki z książki - "A Cotswold Village" (J. Arthur...
Fiszki z książki - "Initiative in Evolution" (Walt...

7. devious

You set me up yesterday. You are a devious little woman, aren't you, Becky?

He took us by a devious route to the center of the city.

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(devious) si verifica in set:

character and personality
describing personality
negative character traits
zestaw numer 10 (32)
Cechy charakteru

8. sly

He is a sly fox.

I don't like him because he is sly as a fox.

Remember that he's sly enough to cheat us.

"You'll find out eventually," said Mary, with a sly smile.

It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

He'd been on the receiving end of his own set of sly smiles.

You sly dog, you did listen to me.

Julia is so sly; she says one thing to my face and another behind my back.

He looked at me with a sly smile on his face and a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Fox is a very sly animal.

She looked into his eyes and gave him a sly smile.

His smile was a sly thing, breaking in from the side of his face.

If you do something on the sly, you do it secretly because you should not be doing it:

a sly political move

He appears sly on the surface.

Inglese parola "przebiegły"(sly) si verifica in set:

negatywne cechy pt2
ubrania i osobowość F3U1

9. sneaky

No matter how sneaky you are, you can never surprise yourself.

You sneaky bastard!

Don't trust him. He's a sneaky son of a bitch.

“sneaky, underhanded tactics”