All 3 Uses of
cunning
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- …and finally Stanislaus Katczinsky, the leader of our group, shrewd, cunning, and hard-bitten, forty years of age, with a face of the soil, blue eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food, and soft jobs.
Chpt 1cunning = being good at achieving goals through cleverness
- His sharp, mousy features began to shine, his eyes grew small with cunning, his jaws twitched, and he whispered hoarsely: "Man! then you've got bread for one hundred and fifty men too, eh?"
Chpt 1cunning = cleverness and deception
- Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain.
Chpt 8 *cunning = clever and deceptive
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)