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Meanings of very canny in English

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Usage of very canny in English
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Felicity had been very canny; she'd made each trump card tell.
Winner Take All
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The Greens have got to play a very canny game, Bourne told Reuters.
Reuters
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The Scotch are often very able, very canny in business.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
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The string had always been a rebel, though a very canny one, a trickster.
Dayworld Breakup
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Sington has structured the story in very canny fashion.
The Irish Times
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Trainer Simon Miller is very canny and has warned not to dismiss the Perth sprinter.
News.com.au
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As for allowing him on his lands-well ,Dirkwas not very canny to meddle with.
Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of t...
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But in the next letter we discover designs on a certain very canny Scotchman of Skibo.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
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It's a very canny piece of work.
The Irish Times
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He could also be very canny.
American empire: blood and iron
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Trainer Simon Miller very canny.
News.com.au
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Mr. Rotherhite, who happened to be a newly recruited member of the Opposition press, proved very canny in this situation.
The Titan
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Gross himself was very canny about self-promotion, being both a fixture on financial television and a frequent and entertaining writer.
Reuters
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Wilkinson is playing a very canny game, pinning the South Africans back in their own half with his laser-like kicks.
The Guardian
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" Very canny, that small one," the Lord of Admirals said.
Halo Primordium
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"This is either a very simple child or a very canny one," she said to Jean Kennedy.
Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
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