canny

Careful, prudent, cautious.

The politician gave a canny response to the reporter’s questions.

O! as thou art bonny, be prudent and canny,

Knowing, shrewd, astute.

The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted.

‘Paris Hilton is A-list. She’s a genuinely really big star,’ said Professor Robert Thompson, a popular culture expert at Syracuse University. She’s also a canny money-making machine.

Frugal, thrifty.

canny investments

Whate’er he wins, I’ll guide with canny care.

Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.

She’s a canny lass hor like!

But gie me a cannie hour at e’en, My arms about my dearie O; An’ warl’y cares, an’ warl’y men, Mae a’ gae tapsalteerie O!

Gentle, quiet, steady.

a canny horse

Be canny with this letter.

Very, considerably; quite, rather.

a canny long journey

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Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.

he sits very canny

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Natural, normal.

I should have been glad to be assured that she prayed when on her knees, or read when that book was before her; I should have felt that she was more canny and human.

“Live here with a lot of blooming performing animals! No fear,” they said. “And ghosts too,” some added with a shudder. “That’s what those Dryads really are. It’s not canny.”