All 10 Uses of
cunning
in
Dune
- Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?†
Book 1
- For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.†
Book 1
- "A man of devilish cunning, my Lord," Hawat said.†
Book 1
- He felt a soft breeze from an air duct, saw the outlet cunningly hidden in a pattern of hangings directly ahead of him.†
Book 2
- I am here to walk the sand, to lure a maker and mount him by my own cunning that I may be a Fremen entire.†
Book 3
- And they were so devilishly cunning of late.†
Book 3 *
- It annoyed Gurney, the cunning and adroitness in battle of these natives.†
Book 3
- "They held back knives concealed in cunning pockets within their stillsuits," the lieutenant said.†
Book 3
- If it's a flip-dart, Paul thought, it's a cunning one.†
Book 3
- At the apex of their sway over the affairs of the Universe, their swordsmanship was said to match that of the Ginaz tenth level and their cunning abilities at in-fighting were reputed to approach those of a Bene Gesserit adept.†
Book Term
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)