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I would not call a child backward who could use words like those, and we ought to be a little more canny in conveying.
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I do suggest to him that he is being a bit canny about this question.
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The electorate and parents are canny, and want to know what they are voting for.
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One can, if one is canny, make a calculation and have a gamble.
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They are canny birds and go high up in the air.
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Now they are telling local authorities to go canny.
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We have to be very canny about these matters.
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However, it is also very canny because it is now trying yet a third ploy.
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Very canny they are in the whole business.
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Farmers are canny people and will not treat something as law until it actually becomes law.
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Hospitals workers were very canny about their politics if they had any.
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My wife, who is very canny, said that that was too much, and asked me to decorate it myself.
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A rather canny motorist discovered that this was a rat run that enabled him to avoid the traffic on the main road.
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One must be very canny about this, and if it is not presumptuous of me.
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My experience of young people is that they are fairly canny in choosing their careers.
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Has the union been canny enough to refuse to be provoked?
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First, borough and county treasurers are a lot more cunning, canny and clever than they are given credit for.
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He is very canny; he has seldom, if ever, said anything, and certainly not today.
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The people of that area are a canny and intelligent people.
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A good landlord is also from time to time a canny landlord.
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Most of them are pretty canny.
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Admittedly, some of the workers may have been unwilling in their task, but my constituents are canny and shrewd enough to know a good investment when they see one.
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Our people have had a very canny way of finding a great capacity for breaking laws that do not carry such consent behind them and have not had such debate.
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We were therefore rewarding those who were most canny or best informed about how to make it more difficult to remove them when they were found not to be genuine.
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Many farmers are very canny people.
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Schoolchildren are, in my experience, extremely canny; they will not go into career options without giving a great deal of thought to what will come of them.
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First, canny choices of farming plots allowed an individual or group of individuals to systematically gain an upper hand in crop production.
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Generally, the aim of the cross is to produce a sighthound with more intelligence, a canny animal suitable for poaching rabbits, hares, and game birds.
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Bekolo eviscerates the ruling elite but with the canny use of inter-titles also leaves the audience with something to ponder.
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He was a slight but canny player, who often defeated larger, more powerful opponents.
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Knowing this, however, a canny thrower may tailor his or her throw to increase the odds of flats.
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He was a forward and known as a superb opportunistic goal-scorer, making most of his quick thinking and canny positioning.
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He felt that retaining the character and using her in this fashion was a canny move.
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One critic described her as a spell-binding professional, who rivets attention with her glorious, cultivated voice and canny stagecraft.
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The dragon belongs in its barrow, canny and jealous of its jewels.
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Pox is a brilliant tactician, a canny businessman, and holds his own in chess.
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Canny players, however, may often detect subtle design cues left in the world by the designer, and safely jump over the lethal spots of ground.
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He generally achieved a canny balance of humour and high seriousness which is often multi-layered in its effects.
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When the agents converged on the workshop, the canny villain detected them.
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Voting presents somewhat of a tactical challenge for canny players seeking to maximize their chances of winning, and maximizing the pay-offs if they do.
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His peers view his observant narratives, canny wordplay and flamboyant delivery as a trademark of their genre.
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When teaching or transacting academic business, he displayed a shrewd, canny intelligence.
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Haymitch shows himself to be highly canny as he guides his protgs in a cleverly designed, highly unorthodox strategy aimed at ensuring the survival of both tributes.
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The canny adulteress then lies atop of the tub and, her lover pleasuring her the while, instructs her hapless husband as to where he should apply his energies.
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The canny student would be better off with one good anthology.
Not angels, not men; and even the canny animals are aware that we don't feel very securely at home within our interpreted world.
One could say that juxtaposition is not in itself creative, just canny and opportunistic.
While some aristocrats may have conformed to the melodramatic stereotype, recent scholarship tends to stress the canny commercialism and social restraint of noble land-owners.
Not all landowners were equally canny.
Therefore, if the arbitrator is sufficiently canny, there is no possibility of appealing against his decision.
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I think that we all have personal experience of it, but we cannot persuade a canny businessman that that is so.
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He is fairly canny, as most people would acknowledge with admiration.
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They are canny and friendly and, as befits a constituency with a seaside resort, they love a good night out.
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One is a little canny, shall we say, about giving assurances, especially on a topic of this kind.
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Scotsmen were too canny even to agree to this, and they do not therefore have to pre-pay the carriage.
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The people of the town are honest, industrious, and very canny.
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He was just about getting by, thanks to arable area payments and to being canny at buying and selling cheap in the beef market.
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In our part of the world we are a bit canny about change, and we do not want change unless it is for the better.
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