canny

Example Sentences

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Credit must go to Dean, who conceded only two from the 13th over with her canny off-spin.

From BBC • May 30, 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

It’s a candid and canny strategy to include in his book such a bracing reminder that the world may need art, but it doesn’t owe artists a living.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

But she smiles her canny little smile in a way that makes me think it’s not a bad notion.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich