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- adjective Alternative spelling of
streetwise .
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Examples
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Described as street-wise and direct, Chirkinian had said recently that getting into the Hall of Fame was the apex of his career-and what a robust career it was.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVE SKRETTA 2011
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Your characters have been so realistic and your dialogue has been described as gritty and street-wise.
An Interview with Andrew Stone. Interviewed by Pat Hayworth 2010
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And the gritty street-wise sound of Philly Hip-Hop has brought the best in the rap game to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly affection over the course of the last 30 years.
Charles Howard: Raul Midón: A Free Man Beyond Category Charles Howard 2011
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And the gritty street-wise sound of Philly Hip-Hop has brought the best in the rap game to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly affection over the course of the last 30 years.
Charles Howard: Raul Midón: A Free Man Beyond Category Charles Howard 2011
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And the gritty street-wise sound of Philly Hip-Hop has brought the best in the rap game to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly affection over the course of the last 30 years.
Charles Howard: Raul Midón: A Free Man Beyond Category Charles Howard 2011
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Unless you're going for caricature, there's no need to make your characters look like street-wise prohibition-era gangsters in the mold of Edward G. Robinson.
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Others, such as the Danish and Dutch social democrats, were more street-wise, wanting to bend to the popular mood.
While the European left dithers, the right marches menacingly on | Will Hutton 2011
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And the gritty street-wise sound of Philly Hip-Hop has brought the best in the rap game to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly affection over the course of the last 30 years.
Charles Howard: Raul Midón: A Free Man Beyond Category Charles Howard 2011
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The street-wise tone works because the book is at heart a well-researched valentine to a lost world of seedy con men, promoters and club owners, the power brokers and hustlers who made the "circuitry spark."
On the Midnight Special Eddie Dean 2011
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And the gritty street-wise sound of Philly Hip-Hop has brought the best in the rap game to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly affection over the course of the last 30 years.
Charles Howard: Raul Midón: A Free Man Beyond Category Charles Howard 2011
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