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  • adjective superlative form of canny: most canny.

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Examples

  • KCA Of all the options you mention, holding on to your money to help your son with a house deposit is definitely the canniest.

    Tuition fees or house deposit: how is it best to help our son? 2011

  • Her canniest naysaying had to have occurred when she was the understudy for the role of Deena Jones in the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" and one day presented herself to its formidable director, Michael Bennett, to quit.

    Phylicia Rashad's star trajectory to Arena Stage's 'every tongue confess' Peter Marks 2010

  • Even the canniest and most discerning did not know, could not know, much less imagine, that when husband and wife or parent and child said goodbye what they meant was forever .

    A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011

  • Just as the best place to live in Cheltenham is not in a Regency house but opposite one, so the canniest property buyers will go for cheaper towns near spas and so have the best of both worlds.

    In praise of … spa towns | Editorial 2011

  • As the election drew closer, outside groups run by some of the party's canniest political operatives pumped millions of dollars into key races.

    No one's clean on election cash Ruth Marcus 2010

  • From the gothic majesty of Westminster's central lobby, BBC political editor Nick Robinson described the first minister as "the canniest political operator in these isles".

    Alex Salmond: a canny political operator, but not infallible 2012

  • Are they the canniest, most-driven, most-forward-looking couple on these isles?

    Kate Middleton's parents are years ahead | Victoria Coren 2011

  • And the restaurant has the canniest cleanup system: The customers can take home all their empties in a bag.

    Brickskeller memories: beer can collecting Tim Carman 2010

  • One of the canniest questions asked of Hillary Clinton in all of 2008 came from Couric, during a webcast following the final debate between Barack Obama and John McCain: “Why do you think Sarah Palin has an action figure and you have a nutcracker?”

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • One of the canniest questions asked of Hillary Clinton in all of 2008 came from Couric, during a webcast following the final debate between Barack Obama and John McCain: “Why do you think Sarah Palin has an action figure and you have a nutcracker?”

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

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