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- s showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
- I am always canny when I meet new people who do not know just how fragile I am.
- That Yale swimming teams have not lost an intercollegiate dual meet for eleven years has not been, for their canny coach, a sufficiently good reason for him to be satisfied with .
- More than anything else, Jobs is a canny CEO who knows how to sell product.