canniness

Example Sentences

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But this latest barrage of posts aimed at Europe demonstrates that he has no such canniness when it comes to foreign affairs.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025

Putin biographer Masha Gessen called Putin “the man without a face,” alluding not only to his resolutely nondescript quality, but his canniness in using it to conceal sharp-edged ambition and deep-seated venality.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

“I had respect for her smarts or canniness and practicality,” Tillman writes, in an attempt to give her mother her due.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022

But analysts also say Kainerugaba lacks his father's political canniness.

From Reuters • May 19, 2022

The old hound had the canniness of a wolf.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George