Canny in a sentence as an adjective

End result: a lot of wasted CPU cycles and a reasonably small transfer of wealth from the gullible to the canny.

'C: 'Hah, you canny bastard who played this, I can never resist "cheese" ' [1]C: ' ewwwwww, not that kind of "cheese" pulls disgusted face ' other players laugh.

A canny marketing manager boosted sales by realising everyone used the cap to measure doses.

"Why these canny subversives have let idiots like the Koch Brothers buy the American government, I just dunno.

They cannot make their problems go away through fancy rhetoric or canny argumentation.

Clearly the person who set up the meth lab are responsible but a canny lawyer will argue that AirBnB and the owner were negligent in their actions.

It's a tale of perseverance and canny self-promotion from a guy who is spectacularly good at learning from failure.

Most clearly evident from the opening video, and Facebook's marketing team will be canny enough to know exactly what they are doing and who they want to reach.

Being a canny guy he probably thought he best stick to the Marilyn and soup themes making sure he put his name on everything so that in aeons hence there would be no doubt whatsoever that these were his definitive artworks.

If you want us to take that risk, give us some insurance"Apparently Sprint wants this deal badly enough to risk losing $1B if it doesn't go through, and T-Mobile was canny enough to realize this fact and negotiate for that clause in the contract.

A canny executive doesn't rob the firm by dipping his fingers in the till but by, for instance, loading the firm with gold-plated rubbish and extracting a personal profit in the form of compensation, stock-options etc, before the sheen wears off.

Canny definitions

adjective

showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

See also: cagey cagy clever