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What is the adjective for canny?

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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.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. shrewd, astute, clever, sharp, smart, intelligent, perceptive, cunning, discerning, wise, savvy, acute, crafty, wily, sly, artful, knowing, judicious, calculating, quick, perspicacious, sagacious, ingenious, foxy, penetrating, prudent, sensible, subtle, slick, cagey, discriminating, careful, cautious, sapient, streetwise, wary, circumspect, pawky, heady, argute, watchful, slippery, skilful, hardheaded, skillful, suss, discreet, smooth, sussed, hep … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “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
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shrewder, astuter, cleverer, sharper, smarter, wiser, savvier, acuter, craftier, wilier, slier, quicker, foxier, subtler, slicker, cagier, warier, pawkier, headier, slipperier, smoother, abler, more intelligent, more perceptive, more cunning, more discerning, more artful, more knowing, more judicious, more calculating, more perspicacious, more sagacious, more ingenious, more penetrating, more prudent, more sensible, more discriminating, more careful, more cautious, more sapient, more streetwise, more circumspect, more argute, more watchful, more skilful, more hardheaded, more skillful, more suss, more discreet, more hep … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “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
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shrewdest, astutest, cleverest, sharpest, smartest, wisest, savviest, acutest, craftiest, wiliest, sliest, quickest, foxiest, subtlest, slickest, cagiest, wariest, pawkiest, headiest, slipperiest, smoothest, ablest, most intelligent, most perceptive, most cunning, most discerning, most artful, most knowing, most judicious, most calculating, most perspicacious, most sagacious, most ingenious, most penetrating, most prudent, most sensible, most discriminating, most careful, most cautious, most sapient, most streetwise, most circumspect, most argute, most watchful, most skilful, most hardheaded, most skillful, most suss, most discreet, most hep … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “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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