0 thinking quickly and cleverly, especially in business or financial matters: --
These salesmen are a canny lot.
1 good or pleasant: --
a canny lad
2 intelligent and careful: --
He is a canny investor.
My experience of young people is that they are fairly canny in choosing their careers.
One must be very canny about this, and if it is not presumptuous of me.
A rather canny motorist discovered that this was a rat run that enabled him to avoid the traffic on the main road.
My wife, who is very canny, said that that was too much, and asked me to decorate it myself.
Hospitals workers were very canny about their politics if they had any.
Farmers are canny people and will not treat something as law until it actually becomes law.
Very canny they are in the whole business.
However, it is also very canny because it is now trying yet a third ploy.