All 5 Uses of
cunning
in
Main Street
- Did you know that Percy Bresnahan, the famous auto manufacturer, came from here and——Yes, I think that a St. Patrick's Day party would be awfully cunning and original, and yet not too queer or freaky or anything."†
Chpt 10
- You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns.†
Chpt 11
- Her large face, with its disturbing collection of moles and lone black hairs, wrinkled cunningly.†
Chpt 15
- "You're a cunning thing," he offered, patting the back of her shoulder in an exploratory manner.†
Chpt 21 *
- But she had made for Rita Gould an organdy frock and hat to match universally admitted to be "too cunning for words," and the matrons went cautiously, with darting eyes and excessive politeness, to the rooms which Mrs. Swiftwaite had taken in the old Luke Dawson house, on Floral Avenue.†
Chpt 29
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)