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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 foresightplay

  Familiarity information: CANNILY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CANNILY (adverb)


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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