Canny is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANNY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• quite
ADJECTIVE:
• prudent, also CANNIE
• having or showing shrewdness and good judgement, especially in money or business matters
• pleasant; nice
• shrewd, cautious
• Alt. of Cannei
• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

Words related to CANNY

cannie8 cannier9 canniest10 cannily12 canniness11 canninesses13

Words that contain CANNY

uncanny12

How to use CANNY in a sentence

• Financial wizard Eric Rosenfeld, canny Wall Street analyst and venture capitalist Ben Rosen.
• A canny Scot was Columbus, and it was very seldom indeed that anyone ever got the better of him.
• One choice bit of evidence he secured in a most canny manner.
• In time, two or three of the more canny, realising that safety lay in an early peace offering, ventured out beside him.
• Canny Hun! And who can blame Longshanks if he did the same? But our hero, irritated, Grassed the third man while they waited.
• There were rumors that the place was not quite canny.
• You are a canny Scotch-woman, and know what that means.
• She waited for it with a canny look as she did at home when she held a match to the gas-ring to see if there was another shilling needed in the slot.
• But Elliott, like the canny Scotchman that he was, was determined that he would not be served the same way.
• It was one any canny agent would make in the present situation.
• Those canny folks saw through the wicked hoax on the very first blush of it.
• The face of the canny Fergus was lighted up with an eager joy.
• Ten other men bought licenses, but William Patterson, a canny Scotchman, said he would chance it.
• Sandy McAllister will have to save a tremendous sum out of her housekeeping allowance if she is to win that sixth present that her canny husband promised her.
• We see Maupassant etching the canny and cautious Normans, while Daudet brushed in broadly the expansive exuberance of the Provencals.
• Just as every Scotsman is not canny and every American is not cute, so every Irishman is not what the Saxon believes him to be.
• Happily Sir John Marley, the English Commander, who was likewise Mayor of the Town, was more than a match for the canny Scot.
• Then it was that Jude awoke, and his hot French blood, mingled with his canny Scotch inheritance, rose in his veins and struck madly against brain and heart.
• It was a canny Scot indeed who, acting on the hint I had just given him, finally settled its terms.
• In short, Mr Mucklewheel, ye see it requires a canny hand to manage public affairs, and a sound discretion to know who are the fittest to work in them.
• There were sturdy Englishmen, cosmopolitan Americans, canny Scots, quick-witted Irishmen, sweet-voiced, fervid-spirited Welshmen, and courtly, suave Frenchmen.
• The canny Scotchman saw this with horrid clearness, and saw nothing more.
• Canny Jacobites, however, abstained from voting, and thence Lockhart dates the ruin of his country.
• All Scotchmen are not canny, nor all Irishmen happy-go-lucky.
• I begin my day with a canny Scot, who was born in Edinburgh in 1726, near which city his father conducted a large market-garden.

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