perspicacious
Example Sentences
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Sam Bagenstos: You don’t have to be particularly perspicacious to be cynical here.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Graham Robb’s “The Discovery of Britain” is a magnificently personal and perspicacious guide through his homeland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Smith has proven one of the most even-handed, perspicacious and insightful film critics out there.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2019
The device, though, is only one of many pleasingly inspired flights of writerly fancy sprinkled over an evening of perspicacious insights and devastating verbal takedowns.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
By then she had performed unfalteringly under the twins’ perspicacious scrutiny and had confounded all their expectations.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing perspicacious
Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 15
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