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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

True, oh most sapient Albert," answered the Chevalier, "and you shall see how courteous I can be.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

“Don’t you see that that is the precise reason why they are here, most sapient of second officers? if we hadn’t been short-handed the cap’en wouldn’t have shipped them.”

From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

Truly laudable and excellent, most sapient masters, seems to me that which our most prudent and politic brother has now advanced, were it not for one single circumstance which unhappily spoils all.

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

Go, most sapient gentlemen; I carry on a wholesale trade, and do not cut off yards.

From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)