canny

"His reaction, for someone who's normally pretty canny when it comes to the media, is extraordinarily counterproductive," said Bale.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Her versatility - she was threatening with the new ball and canny at the death - will be crucial at the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

They also share a reputation for being canny directors of actors, understanding from their experience in the spotlight what to say to a performer and when to say it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Griffin even made for himself an industry town called Frostproof—a canny, if defiant, advertising play, named years prior, after the town had survived the mythic 1895 freeze without much issue.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

“I would suggest Proverbs, 24th Chapter, 21st verse,” said the old minister, with a canny gleam in his eye which Kit understood as John began to read.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

But that film was a cannier bid for next-level success, offsetting its three-act corniness with emotional stakes that led to a crescendo of its genius headliner’s performance prowess.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

If Adams were cannier and less damaged, he could find a comfortable way to win.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2024

"If Don had been better informed, he might have been cannier about the potential complications that come with coaching an adolescent girl. Clearly, he wasn't a predator," she added.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2022

While voters throughout the country were glued to their TVs and reflexively refreshing news and political sites on Tuesday night, a few of the cannier ones were paying more attention to something else.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020

And those colliers were reckless with their cash, far readier to commit themselves to buying than the cannier country bodies round.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

Simon Russell Beale, to my mind the canniest wielder of dramatic poetry in the English language, was honored for his mesmerizing lead performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022

Wolfson is widely considered to be one of the canniest operators in UK retail and NEXT's significant on-line business has helped the company weather the assault of e-commerce on traditional retail.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2021

But control is just one effect, and in some ways the canniest — nothing else so efficiently earns the reader’s trust and can lull her into sleepy credulity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021

One of the canniest things about the Wick films is how they riff on Reeves’ public image.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2019

They talked of a hard winter ahead, and the canniest of them defied the skeptics by riding into Medora trailing a pack-horse and purchasing six months' supplies of provisions at one time.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann