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Significados de canny em inglês

Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.

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Uso de canny em inglês
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Independent coffee shop owners can succeed by being canny about location, however.
The Irish Times
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Now Crystal Palace are feeling the benefits of Allardyce's canny transfer work.
The Guardian
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I have forgotten the password that seemed so canny two months ago.
The Irish Times
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The technician in charge was a canny white-haired Scotsman named John McKenzie.
Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2
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One choice bit of evidence he secured in a most canny manner.
The Man from Brodney's
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The canny old poseur was on his way to an immortal martyrdom.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
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The canny invisible hand can outwit the dead hand of corrupt bureaucracy.
Reuters
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That would be a canny choice for both her and for Warners.
The Irish Times
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So, what does the canny business traveller put in their capsule suitcase?
The Irish Times
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Only the truly canny and exceptionally strong had prospered and gotten out.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
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Now Kedzie's surety was her canny realization of the value of tantalism.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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She grinned as sly and canny as a clever, curious fox could.
A nameless witch
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But if one's canny, one manages to keep a few pieces back.
Complete Books of Blood
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Its leader is as tough and as canny as an old fox.
The Guardian
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Third wealthiest man in the world and arguably its most canny investor..
The Guardian
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She has not eloped with one of our canny Scots, has she?
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
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