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Significados de canny em inglês

Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.

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Examples for "clever"
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However the team found a clever way of working out the age.
Radio NZ
2
At first he thought simply of clever questions to ask the Sage.
Mixed Magics
3
MagSafe is extremely clever as a concept and exceedingly fine in reality.
The Verge
4
The vibe knob is a clever solution to a thorny social problem.
Wired
5
There's some really clever use of pixelation and freezing and different points.
The Irish Times
1
Minurso officers are cagey about the last time ceasefire terms were violated.
Reuters
2
I asked them some questions about Jamila, and they were definitely cagey.
Evanly bodies
3
He wouldn't give you the time of day; he was too cagey.
The big bite
4
You had to be careful with Cello; she was so socially cagey.
Black Deutschland
5
I couldn't tell if he was being cagey, or was simply obtuse.
Speaking in Bones
1
Modoc narrowed his eyes in a cagy expression.
Navigators of Dune
2
You'd be surprised at how cagy those officers got after a few of them had been captured.
Spacehounds of IPC
3
The damn college administration is being cagy.
All the pretty dead girls
4
The little man had cagy eyes and he used them on the whole room before he got around to me.
One night stands & lost weekends
5
Although, to be fair, they've been acting more cagy than usual lately, hiding out in meetings with strange suits from other departments.
The Atrocity Archives
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
3
I have forgotten the password that seemed so canny two months ago.
The Irish Times
4
The technician in charge was a canny white-haired Scotsman named John McKenzie.
Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2
5
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
9
So, what does the canny business traveller put in their capsule suitcase?
The Irish Times
10
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
12
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
14
Its leader is as tough and as canny as an old fox.
The Guardian
15
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?
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