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Examples of canny
canny
It was a superb campaign notable for canny field placements and bold strategies.
From the canberratimes.com.au
As well as showing impeccable timing, he was canny in his choice of destination.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Sega have been pretty canny lately at revisiting their old IP and re-issuing it.
From the newsshopper.co.uk
By this time the boys had developed a canny skill in marketing and exploitation.
From the time.com
Then canny arms dealers started importing flexible, razor-sharp wire from China.
From the time.com
Trio continues its canny strategy with its upcoming theme week, Country Is Cool.
From the time.com
The decision to shift Barrick from oil and gas into gold mining looks canny now.
From the economist.com
Tap the opinion of your entire network through canny questioning, Shrivell says.
From the smh.com.au
Even a rumor of the canny Ebner's involvement in a stock could juice the price.
From the businessweek.com
- Cagey: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"
- (cannily) presciently: with foresight; "more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation"
- Geordie is a regional nickname for a person from Tyneside region of the north east of England, or the name of the English-language dialect spoken by its inhabitants. ...
- Careful, prudent, cautious; Knowing, shrewd, astute; Frugal, thrifty; Pleasant, nice; Very or much
- (cannily) In a canny manner
- Shrewd. (The dictionary gives a second meaning: "cautious; esp. 'cautious in spending money,'" which is unfamiliar to me.)
- Canvas ; e.g., canny lynt, canny dammas.
- Good or quite. Something can be canny in itself or it can be canny something, e.g. "canny good."
- For "pleasant" (it should be noted that the Scottish use of canny is often somewhat less flattering),
