All 14 Uses of
cunning
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He was half drunk, and suddenly he grinned his slow half-drunken grin, which was not without a certain cunning and tipsy slyness.†
Chpt 1
- Fyodor Pavlovitch was an obstinate and cunning buffoon, yet, though his will was strong enough "in some of the affairs of life," as he expressed it, he found himself, to his surprise, extremely feeble in facing certain other emergencies.†
Chpt 3
- He mused, and suddenly a slow, cunning grin spread over his face.†
Chpt 3
- Then with devilish and criminal cunning he contrived that suspicion should fall on the servants.†
Chpt 6
- The peasant still stroked his beard, and suddenly screwed up his eyes cunningly.†
Chpt 8
- But, as soon as Grushenka had gone, Mitya began to suspect her of all the low cunning of faithlessness, and he felt no sting of conscience at it.†
Chpt 8
- That's your regulation method, that's where all your cunning comes in.†
Chpt 9
- "You are cunning with me, damn you!" he exclaimed, getting angry.†
Chpt 11
- He has cunning, animal cunning—he knew how to infuriate me.†
Chpt 11
- He has cunning, animal cunning—he knew how to infuriate me.†
Chpt 11
- On one point they will show diabolical cunning, while another will escape them altogether.†
Chpt 12
- Do you hear that phrase uttered with such premature haste—'if not I'—the animal cunning, the naivete, the Karamazov impatience of it?†
Chpt 12
- But don't believe him, that was only his cunning; he didn't really give up the idea of Smerdyakov; on the contrary, he meant to bring him forward again; for, indeed, he had no one else to bring forward, but he would do that later, because for the moment that line was spoiled for him.†
Chpt 12
- What cunning chaps there are nowadays!†
Chpt 12 *
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)