shrewdly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English shrewd Middle English -ly English -ly English shrewdly From shrewd + -ly.

1. In a shrewd manner.

   “Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.”