CANNY in a Sentence

Learn CANNY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for CANNY, such as:

1. Johnson was plainly a canny individual.
2. The canny Premier covered his back by pointing out that he was of Scottish stock.
3. The first and most immediate of these is a certain canny captain of many wars whose regiment is still at the disposal of either army.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANNY
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canny
 a.  having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle; knowing; cautious; cunning; shrewd
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Example Sentence:
1  Johnson was plainly a canny individual.
2  The canny Premier covered his back by pointing out that he was of Scottish stock.
3  The first and most immediate of these is a certain canny captain of many wars whose regiment is still at the disposal of either army.
4  It would be tempting to read his gee-whiz protestations as the practiced act of a canny ingenue.