All 8 Uses of
cunning
in
Bleak House
- Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.†
Chpt 13-15
- No, no, no, sir," remonstrates Grandfather Smallweed, cunningly rubbing his spare legs.†
Chpt 25-27
- Now I suspected that she was very cunning, next moment I believed her honest Welsh heart to be perfectly innocent and simple.†
Chpt 28-30
- "There IS a way, commander," says Phil, looking cunningly at him, "of settling this."†
Chpt 34-36 *
- "Let us then, my brother, in a spirit of love," says Mr. Chadband with a cunning eye, "proceed unto it.†
Chpt 52-54
- With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!†
Chpt 58-60
- The cunning of Mr. Bucket's eye and the masterly manner in which he contrived, without a look or a word against which his watchful auditor could protest, to let us know that he stated the case according to previous agreement and could say much more of Mr. Smallweed if he thought it advisable, deprived us of any merit in quite understanding him.†
Chpt 61-63
- He is left alone with the gentleman in the office, who sits at a table with account-books before him and some sheets of paper blotted with hosts of figures and drawings of cunning shapes.†
Chpt 61-63
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)