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cannily

cannily adverb: in a canny manner.

Adverb

cannily (comparative more cannily, superlative most cannily)

  1. In a canny manner.
    • She had heard of girls who would not speak of their love, arguing to themselves cannily that there may be many a slip between the cup and the lip.1862 September – 1864 April, Anthony Trollope, “Mrs. Dale’s Little Party”, in The Small House at Allington. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published April 1864, →OCLC, page 87

cannily meaning in Urdu

cannily in Urdu

چالاکی سے

Forms of cannily

comparativemore cannily
superlativemost cannily

Origin of cannily

From canny + -ly.

Questions about cannily

What does cannily mean?
Cannily means in a canny manner.
What is cannily in Urdu?
Cannily in Urdu is چالاکی سے. See Cannily meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is cannily?
Cannily is an adverb.

Words near cannily in the dictionary

  1. Canniff
  2. Canniffs
  3. canniflavone
  4. cannikin
  5. cannikins
  6. cannily
  7. canniness
  8. canning
  9. canning it
  10. Canning Town
  11. cannings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cannily (page history and authors); cannily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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