canny

The book reveals negotiations over public funding for the royals when the Sovereign Grant was introduced in 2012 - and presents the Palace as cannier about money than their counterparts in Westminster.

Rather than falling in a flurry of expansive strokes, they lacked any sort of batting rhythm and a meek procession against canny yet unspectacular bowling followed.

Knowing how canny Colbert can be, one could note his choice to drop CBS’s classic moniker as a coded “tip of the hat, wag of the finger.”

But they would be canny enough to work out who would be interested: the UK's global adversaries.

Reaction to Tchiroma's presidential bid has been mixed - some think he is canny.