cannyin a sentence
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a canny investor
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a crew of canny thieves
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A canny match, a white wedding; he'd read about it in the paper, amused, without rancour.† (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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The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.† (source)
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A stranger, he looked canny, almost calculating.† (source)
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CANNY: Are you not listening to me?† (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)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)uncanniest = not canniest
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Emma flashed a canny smile.† (source)
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Though he was cannily evasive on personal details, she was gathering information.† (source)
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So much cannier.† (source)
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There was a kind of quiet wisdom or canniness there, no doubt of that.† (source)
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