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canny

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore C words

shrewd and showing practical cleverness

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Canny in a sentence

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A canny investor, she sold her shares just before the market collapsed.

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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.

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Canny (adjective) means shrewd and showing practical cleverness
Here is canny used in an example sentence: "A canny investor, she sold her shares just before the market collapsed."
Common synonyms for canny include shrewd, astute, savvy, clever.
Antonyms of canny include naive, foolish, gullible.
Canny is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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