All 7 Uses
cunning
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David Copperfield
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- She had a wonderful way too, when listening to what was said to her, or when waiting for an answer to what she had said herself, of pausing with her head cunningly on one side, and one eye turned up like a magpie's.†
Chpt 22-24cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- All this, doubtless, he knew thoroughly, and had, in his cunning, considered well.†
Chpt 25-27cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Anything to equal the low cunning of his visage, and of his shadowless eyes without the ghost of an eyelash, I never saw.†
Chpt 37-39
- His eyes looked green now, as they watched mine with a rascally cunning.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'You are not busy, Mr. Heep?' said Traddles, whose eye the cunning red eye accidentally caught, as it at once scrutinized and evaded us.†
Chpt 52-54
- 'As I think I told you once before,' said I, 'it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world.†
Chpt 52-54 *
- It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves.†
Chpt 52-54
Definitions:
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(1)
(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.