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How to use canniness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word canniness? Here are some examples.

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A combination of canniness and single-minded determination is, he believes, a key to the Hawick psyche.
Modern hospital managers will envy the canniness of their counterparts from the 19th century.
It was the sudden deaths of their husbands that unleashed their tremendous, long-latent ambition and with it the canniness to succeed.
It's another sign of Mr Kennedy's canniness that he will not be getting carried away until all the votes are counted.
One reason for our immense success is the canniness of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that only allowed highly educated Indians into the country.
But his superstition united with his canniness played the Count's game for him, and he ran with his favouring wind through fogs and all till he brought up blindfold at Galatz.
Mr Kenyatta's victory was thanks more to his canniness in building tribal alliances that numerically outweighed those that Mr Odinga put together, than to any set of policies.
Examples from Classical Literature
The verses rang with New England canniness, and the familiar dialect acquired a dignity never before acknowledged.
Malcolm, with the canniness of his kind, at once told her he had had no luck.
Carson, with the canniness so characteristic of the American, was not to be so easily convinced.
People looked askance upon them as Scots, while innkeepers hated them for their poverty and their canniness.
He was, in a way, a Paul Revere spreading intelligence, and with Scotch canniness made a good bargain for himself.
With the canniness of her new-found love, Avice approached the subject in a roundabout way.
He gave a remarkable proof of his canniness in the successful outcome of his bargaining with the trustees of the British Museum.
It was in the morning that the landlady showed her canniness.
Andrew Carnegie tells a good story illustrating the canniness of the Scot.
A dog is singularly destitute in what is called in Scotland, canniness.
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