canny

A wavering, but canny Wehrmacht General Dietrich von Choltitz finally surrendered it on August 25.

That is admirable, and Preserve is clever, or at least canny.

All of it is so canny we can only wonder why no one had said these things before.

Keen and canny, they drive a close bargain but, scrupulous and conscientious, fulfil it faithfully.

He is a steady lad,’ your father said, ‘and a canny goer; and I doubt not he will come safe, and be well liked where he goes.

After three years, during which he served me very faithfully, I transferred him to a Frenchman, Mr. Canny by name.'

The august name of Wilkins's was in its essence so exclusive that vast numbers of fairly canny provincials had never heard of it.

It had been mischievously started by Muriel and smilingly declined by three canny freshmen.