cunning
IPA: kˈʌnɪŋ
noun
- Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
- A surname.
adjective
- Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
- (obsolete) Skillful, artful.
- (obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
- (US, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing.
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Examples of "cunning" in Sentences
- He is the most evil and cunning opponent.
- An act or a means of cunning deception. winsome adj.
- He possesses a diabolic cunning and is an expert fencer.
- The Magog evolve and become more intelligent and cunning.
- As in the folktale, he was a cunning and threatening menace.
- A device is of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention.
- They are cunning and ravenous, but reproduce slowly in the wild.
- Cunning Plan was the only featherweight in a field of heavyweights.
- Babau are the cunning and sneaky but powerful assassins of the Abyss.
- Among them are clever, dexterous, experienced, skillful, cunning and sly.
- "Oh, the cunning, _cunning_ thing!" cried Gladys, her eyes flashing radiantly.
- Well I doubt his low reptilian cunning is inadequate to that task but lets pretend.
- The heartless villain replied, with a wink: "My friends, _There is cunning in cunning_."
- "Well, then, I will be as plain as ever I can be, only premising that what you call the cunning of the serpent --"
- One red-skin has more cunning in his natur 'than a whole regiment from the other side of the water; that is, what I call cunning of the woods.
- My cunning is superior to the cunning of the Sunlanders, but ye take away its edge, and rob me of its strength, and make it worse than no cunning at all!
- Because he viewed human nature as venal, grasping, and thoroughly self-serving, he suggested that ruthless cunning is appropriate to the conduct of government.
- Ambush: Protesters attacked the car carrying Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall Scotland Yard drew up what it called a "cunning plan" to deal with one of the student protests, it was revealed today.
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