perspicacious
Example Sentences
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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
“In the late 1990s he wrote ‘Single & Single,’ which was … incredibly perspicacious about what the economic impact of the collapse of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union would be,” Glenny says.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 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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