Cannier

It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation. ❋ Danny Groner (2010)

You don't have to make an elaborate set in order for them to work, but they aren't effective on the cannier animals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The platter of urban blight made you warier, cannier, pointier, angrier... more entertaining. ❋ Peter Mehlman (2011)

Thirty years later, this week's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton shows how much cannier the royal family—and the fashion industry—have become in managing the voracious appetite of a celebrity-obsessed press. ❋ Deborah Ball (2011)

The middle classes are on the rise in many other parts of the world, and are on the whole cannier, better educated, less fat, and far, far less complacent and indebted than we are. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cannier ones realise that, if they create work that exists in many spheres and on different platforms, their work will not just continue to exist but continue to grow and spread, long after the curtain has fallen. ❋ Lyn Gardner (2010)

But accurately appraising remote and undeveloped lands can be a tricky business, and Mr. Chapman has sometimes proved a cannier judge of value than the federal government. ❋ Stephanie Simon (2010)

Tall shelves behind him held bottles of every shape and spirits of every possible shade, from the mind-dissolving bright blues and acid greens to the equally dangerous but cannier caramel browns and diamond clears. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was a bit shorter off the tee than the youngsters were, but for the most part he was cannier on and around the greens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I remember reading in the New York Times that the crop of soldiers and junior officers in Iraq were cannier than their by-the-book superiors. ❋ Jane Smiley (2010)

I think Obama's a much cannier politician than he's mostly been given credit for. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The French are cannier in their dealings with the Arabs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

1: [Hey bro], you see that hurt kid over there? 2: Yo, He got [canned] bro! or 1: [I'm so high] right now... 2: Don't get cannier, bro. ❋ Bonzi_buddy (2022)