[ US /ˈkæni/ ]
[ UK /kˈæni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
    too clever to be sound
    a cagey lawyer
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How To Use canny In A Sentence

  • Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
  • There is also an uncanny correlation of azimuthal phases between $\ell = 3$ and $\ell = 5$. Science Press Release Synopses
  • There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
  • As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship.
  • He has an uncanny feeling for being in the right spot at the right time and the opposing goalkeeper can only watch and cry. The Sun
  • He earned the sobriquet from an uncanny ability to always pick the right stocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut.
  • stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
  • Some canny moves in the three weeks until the end of the current tax year can save you thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tax can eat into your returns so canny investors make us of the available tax breaks.
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