canny

Example Sentences

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"Larijani is a true insider, a canny operator, familiar with how the system operates and familiar with the supreme leader's inclinations."

From Barron's

Curran is often credited with having a canny mix of slower balls but he has largely kept his pace above 80mph in those crucial final stages.

From BBC

“Wuthering Heights” is a satisfying listen as well as a canny solution to the problem of how to follow up a breakthrough record.

From The Wall Street Journal

But they had a coffee and chatted and he seemed "nice, quite canny".

From BBC

Rodríguez is considered a canny politician who some contend is much less ideological than her leftist history implies.

From Salon