Sentence examples for less canny from inspiring English sources
Others seemed born of the gleeful, spur-of-the-moment hyperbole with which Mr. Ford, who could neither read nor write but was no less canny for that, embellished his many interviews.
Moreover, the Bank of England hinted recently that the full benefit of the strong pound does not appear to have been passed through to customers in the form of cheaper imports.Away from the high street and shopping mall, consumers look even less canny.
Easy credit is on tap and mortgage lenders are offering loans worth five times annual earnings.So it is worrying that the evidence suggests that young people are less canny about money than older ones, who in their turn are hardly financial whizzes.
Children are especially vulnerable as they are likely to be more trusting and less canny than adults, and this heightens the general obligation to be truthful, keep promises and so forth.
Back in the public eye, if indeed she ever left it, with a best-selling memoir and a series of concerts that promise to burnish her legend, Ms. Smith is the same deft communicator — and, not less, the canny custodian of her own image.
When hundreds of thousands are unable to afford the basics – contending with Value corn flakes, baked beans and simple white bread – the rest are falling for less-than-canny sales ploys to make them buy more than they need.
Rod Stewart seemed to treat the whole business less like a canny career move than a terrible endurance test to inflict on the general public.
If you're one sort of person, you might see Hillary Clinton in Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) — a former First Lady who quite literally walks through flames, and whose hawkish (or, I guess, dragonish) résumé is tempered by her desire to make her kingdom less violent, through canny dealmaking.
Mr Milburn learned for a second time that the prime minister's support is inadequate protection against the chancellor's enmity.Mr Hutton is a cannier, less flamboyant operator than Mr Milburn.
Adorno, a cannier and less conflicted character, established himself in academia, writing dissertations on Husserl and Kierkegaard.
When Cooper Union first opened, Peter Cooper's stated aspirations were challenged in some quarters; some suspected him of being less the selfless idealist and more the canny pragmatist.
