Crossword clues for cannily
cannily
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannily \Can"ni*ly\, adv. In a canny manner. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]
Wiktionary
adv. In a canny manner.
WordNet
adv. with foresight; "more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation" [syn: presciently]
Usage examples of "cannily".
Father cannily complied with Farm Directives and still managed to plant most of the Fenn lands to creditable crops like corn and beets.
They cannily kept close to the giant tree ferns which offered the best safety available to man here in the ghastly lost domain of time.
You remained with me, cannily checkmating my moves when you could, and seeking always to have your men kill me.
But he accepted the proffered substitute, cannily offered in one of the good wineglasses lined up waiting.
One of the kiosks baked traditional Barrayaran breads and cannily vented their ovens into the concourse, for advertising.
Shona, having been trained to be a PE teacher in the Dunfermline College of Physical Education {located confusingly but cannily not in Dunfermline but across the river near Edinburgh).
James reprises Danny Getchell, the cannily corrupt star writer of Hush-Hush magazine, who has the grisly goods on almost everyone in Tinseltown and will blackmail anyone to obtain exclusive dirt.