canny in English

adjective
1
having or showing shrewdness and good judgment, especially in money or business matters.
canny shoppers came early for a bargain
2
pleasant; nice.
she's a canny lass

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1. Canniest definitions Superlative form of canny: most canny.

2. Canny Lassie Clericals, Glasgow, United Kingdom

3. These salesmen are a canny lot.

4. But the prey she seeks are canny.

5. Some analysts believe he has made a canny political manoeuvre.

6. He was far too canny to risk giving himself away.

7. Nerve cells, canny little things, recycle their neurotransmitters.

8. What does Canniness mean? The quality of being canny

9. “A canny Merlot Ableeze wi succulent blackcurrants an blueberries

10. If nothing else, Annaud proves himself a canny casting director with this movie.

11. He has shown himself to be a canny operator in wage negotiations.

12. She is canny and classy, a more-than-capable combination of brains and beauty.

13. Cannily definition: in a canny manner Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

14. A canny bureaucratic infighter , Moorer made no pretense of academic subtlety.

15. She worshipped him and was canny enough not to let him know.

16. Pete Chambers is a canny fellow. Not one to miss an opportunity.

17. Canny trading played a big part in making the Orioles so formidable.

18. He had real charm, which made canny figures such as Tolkien distrust him.

19. Synonyms for Complicitous include complicit, conniving, deceitful, duplicitous, scheming, adept, calculating, canny, chary and craft

20. A canny fighter, the Banneret observes you and infuriatingly alters his moves accordingly.

21. He was canny enough to see that they were trying to trap him.

22. Most people chose this as the best definition of Cannily: In a canny manner

23. Synonyms for Circumspect include cautious, careful, guarded, heedful, wary, alert, attentive, canny, chary and considerate

24. They were the sturdy facade, the ulterior design for a very canny flow of resources.

25. Savage warriors, tenacious traders, and canny colonisers — these are what the Belgae are known for

26. Khrushchev was far too canny a bird to discuss anything of value in a hotel room.

27. 12 They were the sturdy facade, the ulterior design for a very canny flow of resources.

28. They hardly imagined that there were so many indigent, yearning, crooked, canny inheritors on the earth.

29. It was the inspired creation of a company of gifted architects, canny financiers, and cosmopolitan religious leaders.

30. She's far too canny to keep her money in this country. She's got it safely hidden away in Switzerland, I expect.

31. The market even proved it was more canny than the pollsters by climbing 43 points on polling day itself.

32. The Chartering market is filled with risks; making timely service, global coverage, strong relationships and canny broking and negotiating skills vital for successful fixing

33. Uncanny transactions and canny forms: Rosamund Marriott Watson's Marchen We must strive to become paradoxical, explosive beings: sexual citizens, lawyer Anarchs .

34. Canny salespeople may try to bamboozle you with jargon, so it's worth getting to grips with a few key features before you hit the shops.

35. Global Times special correspondent reported that US first-lady Michelle is a brave and canny adventurer in terms of choosing fashion brand or innovation of clothes style.

36. What once seemed a canny convergence play now looks like a barmy risk, for both the borrowers and the banks, chiefly Italian and Austrian, that lent to them.

37. 22 What once seemed a canny convergence play now looks like a barmy risk, for both the borrowers and the banks, chiefly Italian and Austrian, that lent to them.

38. Considered one of Shakespeare's Bawdier works, the play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry

39. Wu gives us the texts of familiar poems made strange—sometimes by being presented in their first printed version, sometimes by the juxtaposition implied by Wu's canny practice of the Anthologizer's art.” —David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth University

40. ‘A light tubular chassis with an inline 8 cylinder engine was made by Cobbling a couple of sports engines together.’ ‘Plato had a particular reason for Cobbling together the story.’ ‘It's been done before, usually by Cobbling together footage in a canny way.’

41. If "repression" is the term for the psychic reality of Fokir's Canniness, then "surmounting" would be the erasure and rejection of such an indigenous canny in the discourses--the cultural unconscious--of the postcolonial nation

42. The canny Creoles quickly grasped an understanding of the Spanish caste system, and a Creole of mixed lineage was a step closer to Spain than one whose parents were both French, and so could aspire to greater things than one who was solely French.

43. Cagey: 1 adj characterized by great caution and wariness “a Cagey avoidance of a definite answer” Synonyms: cagy , chary cautious showing careful forethought adj showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others “a Cagey lawyer” Synonyms: cagy , canny , clever smart showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

44. Abiogenesist VS; Alienist; Bestial Summoner MA; Canny Summoner MA; Capriccio; Clan Summoner; Creative Artist VS; Cursed Summoner; Divine Summoner VS; Dream Summoner; Elemental Conduit; Geomancer; Golem Builder AC; Hostile Summoner; Monster Ally; Monster Channeler AC; Monster Knight NS AC; Monster Magus VS; Occult Summoner VS; Robed Summoner FA

45. Barade is trained by Archie Alexander, at Ballarat and owned by Oti Racing (Mgrs: T Henderson & S Driscoll), D Canny, D House, R King, G Robinson, P Vawdrey, J Murphy, L Larmer, P Farrugia, P Flavel, A Fitzgerald, L Webb, D Sinn, W & Mrs V Pelchen, T & Mrs B Porter & A & Mrs P Goodfellow.

46. JENNY, my Blithest Maid, Prithee listen to my true Love now; I am a canny Lad, Gang along with me to yonder Brow; Aw the Boughs shall shade us round, 5: While the Nightingale and Linnet teach us, How the Lad the Lass may woo, Come, and I’ll shew my Jenny how to do