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Meanings of too canny in English

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Usage of too canny in English
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Still, he is too canny to merely sit around doing nothing.
The Irish Times
2
Scott was too canny to yield one whit of his advantage.
The Brentons
3
But he seems too canny an investor to put his money in a loss-making plaything.
Reuters
4
Colonel, says Doctor McTaggart, who perhaps was too canny to correct the commanding officer's Latin.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
5
Your father was far too canny to involve himself with something not founded upon a solid bottom.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
6
The camel's far too canny by now.
Full Circle
7
But Castor was too canny for that.
Dayworld
8
Lysandra butted her head forward, trying to catch Albina unawares, but the savage warrior was too canny.
Gladiatrix
9
He was too canny for that.
NY Magazine
10
But Macklin was too canny.
The Postman
11
But there were still a few hours of daylight left and Apaches were far too canny to let themselves be easily seen.
The devil she knows
12
I wasted a long time there trying to persuade Goork to accept me at my own valuation, but he was too canny.
Pellucidar
13
To Strehler this is ridiculously crude, yet he is too canny not to make use of the rich resources of natural Itailian conversation.
The new yorker
14
Those who know Woodward well say he is too canny and too smart not to work out how to navigate the European transfer market.
The Guardian
15
He tried to suggest to her that he was glad she was departing the office, but she was now too canny to be deceived.
For Love Of Evil
16
Somehow I knew his suggestion wasn't going to be, "Let her go or I'll break your neck," because Eric was way too canny for that.
All together dead
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Too canny through the time