canniness
Example Sentences
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Pierce hopes that “Julia” will have a third season, but he’d rather talk about the canniness of Lancashire’s portrayal of Julia Child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
“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’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
