Crossword clues for canniness
canniness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canniness \Can"ni*ness\, n. Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being canny.
Usage examples of "canniness".
Another poet seized the opportunity to begin to put together words about Othna’s crafty son, and soon Partha’s canniness was being compared with that of the heroes of Eirrish legend.
But his superstition united with his canniness played the Count's game for him, and he ran with his favouring wind through fogs and all till he brought up blindfold at Galatz.
And it was in the endgame that Gwyn showed his only wisps of talent: a certain Celt-Iberian canniness, a certain sideburned cunning.
The small, closely set eyes were an icy blue, lending an impression of canniness to his features.
The beast seemed to consider the situation with a canniness both human and bestial.
In the vast and deep dark of the Beyond, the negative couldn't be proven, and a destroyed ship, given the legendary canniness of the Fleet captains, was a wait-see, almost never a certainty.