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canny
[ kan-ee ]
adjective
a canny reply.
a canny negotiator.
a canny housewife.
- Scot.
- safe to deal with, invest in, or work at (usually used with a negative).
- gentle; careful; steady.
- snug; cozy; comfortable.
- pleasing; attractive.
- Archaic. having supernatural or occult powers.
adverb
- in a canny manner.
- Scot. carefully; cautiously.
canny
/ ˈkænɪ /
adjective
- shrewd, esp in business; astute or wary; knowing
- dialect.good or nice: used as a general term of approval
- lucky or fortunate
adverb
- dialect.quite; rather
a canny long while
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Derived Forms
- ˈcanniness, noun
- ˈcannily, adverb
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Other Words From
- canni·ness noun
- over·canny adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of canny1
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Example Sentences
Schumer’s aw-shucks humblebrags conceal a canny, ambitious pol.
It’s a canny parody of how Western media has focused on these concerns amid claims that K-pop stars are forbidden to date, have grueling training schedules, and face exacting pressure from their labels and rabid fans alike.
Despite his lovey-dovey talk and reassurances about the bliss and safety that await her, Bilel is clearly a cunning viper engaged in his own dangerous fraud, thus further marking Profile as a canny, multifaceted snapshot of digital deception.
Other portrayals of nature are rendered fantastic partly by the canny use of color.
That’s what the canny retail investors spotted when they decided to target GameStop.
Ever canny if uninspiring, John Boehner admitted as much in his recent remarks.
But he was a canny political operator, far less ideological and more coldly pragmatic than proponents liked to admit.
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.
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