most sapient

ADJECTIVE

sagacious

Synonyms

WEAK

acute astucious astute cagey canny clear-sighted clever contemplative discerning discriminating educated enlightened experienced farsighted foxy informed insightful intelligent judicious keen knowing knowledgeable perceptive reflective sage scholarly sensible sharp shrewd smart thoughtful wise

Example Sentences

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At 75, William Allen White remains one of the country's most sapient reporters, with a special knack for observations which others have felt but never quite got down in Will White's bumblebee prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alas! how sad it is that even the most sapient in mundane experience will be guilty of errors sometimes that are patent to the lesser fry.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

"What should he want to listen for, most sapient knight?"

From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Lord This and Lady That are more thought of as potentially occupying stalls or boxes at a first performance than is the presence of the most sapient judges.”

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

This company are moderns to a man, and, if we may judge of their capacities by their countenances, are indeed a most sapient society.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John