intelligent, careful and showing good judgement, especially in business or politics:
a canny politician * a canny move * He was canny enough to see that they were trying to trap him.
cannily adverb:
She cannily concealed her delight at his suggestion.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for canny is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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In this entry, canny is tagged as adjective.
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