Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "cannily" [can•ni•ly]

  • In a canny manner. (adverb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "cannily" in a sentence
  • "Nineteen sixty-eight saw the Robinsons re-entering the music game as co-founders of All Platinum, a company whose name cannily reflected the record-distributor custom of paying independent labels in alphabetical order."
  • "Its no-nonsense, attention-grabbing which is to say, cannily marketed subtitle?"
  • "It went "cannily" forward, and knew how "to take occasion by the hand," and how to choose its friends."
Words like "cannily"