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What is the adjective for cannily?

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canny
  1. Careful, prudent, cautious.
  2. Knowing, shrewd, astute.
  3. Frugal, thrifty.
  4. (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
  5. (Northumbria) Very or much.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.”
cannier
  1. comparative form of canny: more canny
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Narrowing the question to particular problems, often in particular locations, is cannier.”
      “Has there ever been a cannier promoter of his own work than Philip Roth, announcing his retirement?”
      “The cannier despots know that whispers of dissent among the few can turn into howls of anger among the many in a Tunisian trice.”
canniest
  1. superlative form of canny: most canny
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Lippi's men were the best team in the competition, and he was the canniest coach.”
      “Gerald McEntee, the head of AFSCME, has a reputation as one of the politically canniest union leaders.”
      “How should a wife not love her man, the wisest, canniest prince in Christendom, too!”
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