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单词 cannier
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cannier in British English

comparative adjective
canny
 

canny in British English

(ˈkænɪ)
adjectiveWord forms: -nier or -niest
1. 
shrewd, esp in business; astute or wary; knowing
2.  Scottish and Northeast England dialect
good or nice: used as a general term of approval
3.  Scottish
lucky or fortunate
adverb
4.  Scottish and Northeast England dialect
quite; rather
a canny long while
Derived forms
cannily (ˈcannily)
adverb
canniness (ˈcanniness)
noun
Word origin
C16: from can1 (in the sense: to know how) + -y1

Examples of 'cannier' in a sentence
cannier

One difficulty is that sellers are getting cannier.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Hall is cannier, cleverer and has a better story.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He now had to play a cannier game.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
But the questions will need to be cannier.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But he is far, far cannier than that.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Also, customers are becoming cannier about not breaching their data and calls limits.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I've heard higher flights of oratory, funnier jokes, crueller gibes at opponents, cannier attempts to win applause.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His cannier subjects view him as, like them, a showbiz pro putting on an act.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In tough times, people are cannier about how they spend their money, and that has focused attention on good-value alternatives.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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