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cunning

Cunning is the skill of being very clever, usually to trick or fool someone else. His new plan to attack the castle showed great cunning.

cunning

Something that is cunning uses skills to trick or deceive others. The cunning fox was able to climb over the fence into the hen house.

cunning

crafty artfulness (especially in deception) (= cute) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness a cute kid with pigtails a cute little apartment cunning kittens a cunning baby (= clever, ingenious) showing inventiveness and skill a clever gadget the cunning maneuvers leading to his success an ingenious solution to the problem (= foxy, slick, sly, tricky, wily) marked by skill in deception cunning men often pass for wise deep political machinations a foxy scheme a slick evasive answer sly as a fox tricky Dick a wily old attorney (= craft) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

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Simple sentences

Charles is a cunning young man.
The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.
He's cunning and manipulative.
Cunning ignores violence.
She is very cunning.
They say that foxes are more cunning than any other animals.
It is said that the fox is more cunning than any other animal.
People say that the fox is more cunning than other animals.
Weasels have a reputation for being elusive and cunning.
Tom is very cunning.

Movie subtitles

Arnold Cunningham - Hello - Arnold Cunning.
His sister manages to escape thanks to Laansoo's cunning.
Do I know that cunning little hill?
It's cunning, all right. But that's why there hasn't been any development here.
I'd heard that the jaguars there were unusually cunning.
He was wearing a two-piece dark-blue flannel lounging suit. with a cunning white monogram on his upper pocket.
The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking dead men apart and building up a human monster so fearful and so horrible that only a half-crazed brain could have devised.
Hope the old hand hasn't lost its cunning.
And her face looks cunning.
What a cunning little camera.
Did you ever see anything so cunning?
You're a cunning fellow, Ygor.
But before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor have I no cunning in protestation.
This sort of unrealistic act is typical of the shortsighted cunning that goes with paranoid behavior.
Hope the old hand hasn't lost it's cunning. I'm inclined to believe. that there's some rational explanation to all this.
Oh, what a cunning child.
Cunning beyond belief.
But then, of course, we didn't count upon a creature. that has learned to stalk the most cunning animal. that can catch scents upon the Wind. that has mastered the trick of moving through a forest as if he were transparent.
And my hand hasn't lost it's cunning either.
Cunning little beggar.
Abnormal cunning, a contempt for life.
Cunning, ain't he?
And all the cunning little bunches of flowers?
It's cunning, all right.
But, before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my eloquence, nor have I no cunning in protestation.
And the cunning.
It will be necessary to be far-seeing, cunning, to judge what is good to announce and good to hide.
You are not strong, you are sly, cunning.
Always used by a cunning psychopath.
A product of the gutters and bazaars. an orphan waif, who lived by his shrewdness and cunning.
The bandit was cunning.
Of tropical birds and fierce animal life. the killer tiger. the cunning hyena. the deadly python that can crush a giant elk. the proud lion.
It is a world of cruelty and cunning. But it is free.

News and current affairs

As is usual with this ex-KGB man, Putin is being cunning about Ukraine, but he is deluding himself if he thinks that siding with Yanukovych will bring back effective Russian overlordship of Ukraine.
Like Romania's people, they survived only by daily cunning.
We all know just how cunning bureaucrats can be in destroying incriminating evidence.
While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.
None of this would have been possible without Shevardnadze's decades-long career of cunning, yet brave, political triangulation.
Indeed, they may well have wondered if the cunning ex-KGB men around Putin simply wanted to make Kaczynski's Katyn commemoration a mockery?

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