canny

Example Sentences

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Probing further, the critic hears, beneath the brazenness, a canny control in the singer’s voice that “tells us more than the words it delivers.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

He’s understood in Ireland as a canny political operator who led his boring center-right party, Fianna Fáil, back to power after a decade in the wilderness.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

“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 • Feb. 17, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

The opiate of Zeus’s daughter bore this canny power.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer