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1
exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters
- negotiates business deals with all of the proverbial canniness of an old-time horse trader
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2
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- the canniness with which she negotiated her contract as spokesperson for the shoe manufacturer
Synonyms for canniness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- wiliness
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