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CANNILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cannily mean?
• CANNILY (adverb)
The adverb CANNILY has 1 sense:
1. with foresight
Familiarity information: CANNILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With foresight
Synonyms:
cannily; presciently
Context example:
more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation
Pertainym:
canny (showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others)
Context examples
We shall get you off cannily, Dick: and it will be better, both for your sake, and for that of the poor creature in yonder.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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