Sentence examples for be canny from inspiring English sources

There may be canny timing, too.

The new man will need to be canny.

They are forever employing phrases that may be ingenuous — or may be canny and ugly.

But the means it employs have to be canny, opportunistic and, yes, political.

He may be canny enough to reunite a bickering party.That will take time.

Be canny and book in your mower for a service now.

The new lot may be cannier.

But the prime minister is a survivor, and may be cannier than he looks.

Some think that he would be cannier to ask for the job of shadow home secretary.

He was canny and smart".

Mr Polman has been canny.