Both Uses
canny
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- Sometimes under her old-ladyish way of speaking he thought he detected a secret canniness, as though like a Delphic oracle she said things with hidden meanings, but he could never be sure.†
Part 4
- This was a rather legalistic maneuver, but Phaedrus by this time had developed a kind of combative canniness.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(canny) cleverness in dealing with others -- especially in business
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)