Sample Sentences for
canny
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    CANNY: Are you not listening to me?†  (source)
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    In the Age of Bronze, when a canny few discovered the science of metallurgy, how long did it take for them to fashion coins, crowns, and swords?†  (source)
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    It was not the hideout of a canny operator but the slim refuge of a runaway who had stepped into a doorway to get out of the rain, collar hugged tight.†  (source)
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    At this late date in his romantic career, he is just canny enough to come up with a new theory: She's being careful because she likes him.†  (source)
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    We shall get you off cannily, Dick: and it will be better, both for your sake, and for that of the poor creature in yonder.†  (source)
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    The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.†  (source)
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    There was a kind of quiet wisdom or canniness there, no doubt of that.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    'In politics and religion this Sane Citizen is the canniest man on earth; and in the arts he invariably has a natural taste which makes him pick out the best, every time.†  (source)
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    "Rebecca, you have the uncanniest knack of hitting the nail right on the head," he says at last.†  (source)
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    Emma flashed a canny smile.†  (source)
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    My wife was on all fours now, racing around the terminal as the frogs cannily stayed one hop ahead of her.†  (source)
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    A cannier man might have argued even so, but Junior didn't have it in him and he changed the subject to the bathroom arrangements.†  (source)
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    This was a rather legalistic maneuver, but Phaedrus by this time had developed a kind of combative canniness.†  (source)
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