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Cannily

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Adverb
  1. 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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with foresight wordnet

Etymology

From canny + -ly.

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