Both Uses of
cunning
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- It got into shadows on the road, and lay cunningly on its back to trip him up.†
Chpt 2.14 *
- His cunning was fresh with the day, and his qualms were gone with the night—in which particulars it is not improbable that he had compeers in Fleet-street and the City of London, that fine morning.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)