All 6 Uses of
cunning
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- There's more cunning in one of those warts on his bald head than in a pack of jack foxes.†
Chpt 1
- A figure that had seemed to him by day demure and innocent came towards him by night through the winding darkness of sleep, her face transfigured by a lecherous cunning, her eyes bright with brutish joy.†
Chpt 2
- It seemed as if he used the shifts and lore and cunning of the world, as bidden to do, for the greater glory of God, without joy in their handling or hatred of that in them which was evil but turning them, with a firm gesture of obedience back upon themselves and for all this silent service it seemed as if he loved not at all the master and little, if at all, the ends he served.†
Chpt 5
- Their trim boots prattled as they stood on the steps of the colonnade, talking quietly and gaily, glancing at the clouds, holding their umbrellas at cunning angles against the few last raindrops, closing them again, holding their skirts demurely.†
Chpt 5
- I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.†
Chpt 5
- —Cunning indeed! he said.†
Chpt 5 *
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)