All 4 Uses of
cunning
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Against the shell of her ear broke the waves of worldly cunning.†
Chpt 5
- Over and over again Dorian used to read this fantastic chapter, and the two chapters immediately following, in which, as in some curious tapestries or cunningly-wrought enamels, were pictured the awful and beautiful forms of those whom Vice and Blood and Weariness had made monstrous or mad: Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife, and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled; Pietro Barbi, the Venetian, known as Paul theā¦†
Chpt 11
- They are more cunning than practical.†
Chpt 17 *
- He could see no change, save that in the eyes there was a look of cunning, and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite.†
Chpt 20
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)