canny
adjective/ˈkæni/
/ˈkæni/
- intelligent, careful and showing good judgement, especially in business or politics
- a canny politician
- a canny move
- He was canny enough to see that they were trying to trap him.
- Her opponent proved to be more canny than she’d thought.
- It's a canny move on his part, as he's effectively silenced one of his harshest critics.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanny is used with these nouns:- buyer
- investor
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots): from can (in the obsolete sense ‘know’) + -y.Definitions on the go
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