canny

Example Sentences

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The recent Rome runner-up is the canny choice to go all the way - although he could face Djokovic in the fourth round.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

But that art, Serrano says, was created by Monroe, with equal parts natural magnetism and a canny, rigorous sense of her own strengths.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 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

It’s no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi’ a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin’ on yer sail for his ain purpose.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker