canniness
Example Sentences
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Putin biographer Masha Gessen called Putin “the man without a face,” alluding not only to his resolutely nondescript quality, but his canniness in using it to conceal sharp-edged ambition and deep-seated venality.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023
But analysts also say Kainerugaba lacks his father's political canniness.
From Reuters • May 19, 2022
She’s a wonderful mix of decent values and applied canniness.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020
Many current country acts, haunted by the Dixie Chicks’ excommunication, tend to soft-pedal their private allegiances, probably out of some similar mixture of commercial canniness and conviction.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2019
The old hound had the canniness of a wolf.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
