canniness
Example Sentences
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“I had respect for her smarts or canniness and practicality,” Tillman writes, in an attempt to give her mother her due.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022
But analysts also say Kainerugaba lacks his father's political canniness.
From Reuters • May 19, 2022
She navigated a City Council viewed as a “boy’s club,” using canniness and persuasion, rather than shouting or arm-twisting, to get what she wanted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2021
She’s a wonderful mix of decent values and applied canniness.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020
The old hound had the canniness of a wolf.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
