Yet "ca'canny" is a disastrous thing to the British laborer. From Wordnik.com. [The Scab] Reference
She had stretched out a wilted hand, peering with an expression canny, severe, and resigned. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
I don't think they're being "canny", just complacent. From Wordnik.com. [Going to war] Reference
On the contrary he was usually what the Scotch call a "canny" player. From Wordnik.com. [The Golf Course Mystery] Reference
And courage is the only thing a "canny" Scot can bear to see expended without return. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
While still another suggests that well-known element in the New England character that the Scotch aptly call "canny". From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886] Reference
Scotch were either too "canny" or too dull to "fash" themselves about it. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
They might shag their relatives, but they're that "canny" they wear johnies. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
And, as "canny" is evidently the Attribute belonging to the 'Middle Terms', we will let m stand for "canny", x for. From Wordnik.com. [The Game of Logic] Reference
He wore a blue dress-coat with gilt diplomatic buttons, white waistcoat, and blue trousers, and looked the "canny". From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
Moreover, both sides were playing "canny," risking nothing, nursing their energies for the last furious five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference
Did he say, 'If you love me, you give me hunnerd dollars; and I go buy me' tick o 'canny'? ". From Wordnik.com. [Dotty Dimple At Home] Reference
"canny," according to Richard Murray, a veteran political analyst and University of Houston political science professor. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Then again, Swift was a canny judge of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Ted's Excellent Adventure] Reference
It may be a canny approach, but it's also a risky one. From Wordnik.com. [Mediterranean Bridge Building] Reference
The female pretender is sweet and canny as Cleopatra VII. From Wordnik.com. [Flax] Reference
You can see why: Jonze's vision is loopy, canny and pure pop. From Wordnik.com. [Mtv's Ruling Vidiot Savant] Reference
ULABY: But they came up with what may be a very canny strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Woes Force Arts Groups To Scale Back] Reference
Real deal: Who would have guessed that would be a canny PR move?. From Wordnik.com. [Puncher Vs. Preacher] Reference
This is classic Price at full pelt – canny, dauntless, defiant. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Price: 'People think I'm not normal'] Reference
Through canny imperial propaganda Rome established itself as a brand. From Wordnik.com. [The Lessons of History] Reference
Putin may be too canny a player not to recognize the danger to the east. From Wordnik.com. [Fear and Loathing in Siberia] Reference
Or honesty and being a charismatic canny lawyer can win you a place in history?. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Legacy Celebrated In Dance] Reference
A canny mix of hardball operative and motherly concern, Burke is very much at home in the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman In The Middle] Reference
It was a canny display of fashion nous – the dress had sold out before the programme even aired. From Wordnik.com. [Cheryl Cole's favourite designers are the real winners of X Factor] Reference
In addition, Adams, who did get that M.B.A. from Berkeley, turns out to be quite a canny businessperson. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Mining The Corporate Life] Reference
Like Warner, Nicholas Hytner is too canny to reduce Shakespeare to the simple role of a propagandist for pacifism. From Wordnik.com. [ALL THE WAR'S A STAGE] Reference
He was a simple but canny man who believed that majority rule should not come to his country for a thousand years. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Out Of Step With His Country] Reference
The canny doctor recognised the scrap as coral – impressively for Tyneside, where you don't see much of the stuff. From Wordnik.com. [The Huddersfield architects still going strong after 175 years] Reference
She was a popular and tough governor, is forceful and bold, and has a canny knack for speaking to the disenfranchised. From Wordnik.com. [The ‘Palinization’ Of Palin] Reference
At his best, Dando seems like a canny, tuneful songwriter with his ears open to all sorts of influences: punk, pop, country. From Wordnik.com. [Checking The Alternatives] Reference
Gore is a canny-enough politician to know that change of this magnitude takes time, and that politics tends to trump science. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet] Reference
Mr. Gabbana concedes the Milan store may prove to be a canny way to associate the Dolce & Gabbana brand with trendy young designers. From Wordnik.com. [Label's New Shop Tips Hat to Rivals] Reference
To be sure, this was a canny way for a now-unemployable art professor to produce marketable artworks and put food on his family's table. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Dix's Mix (No Quick Fix)] Reference
Lately, some of Cuccinelli's detractors have been arguing that he's an "activist" attorney general, embarked on a canny cultural crusade. From Wordnik.com. [Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative] Reference
And despite the virtuous manner, he is also a canny and tough-minded competitor with a history of knocking off heavily favored incumbents. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul And The Steel] Reference
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