Sample Sentences for
cunning
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cunning as in:  a cunning thief

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    The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.  (source)
    cunning = clever and deceptive
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    She's known to be exceedingly pushy, egotistical, cunning, calculating and perpetually dissatisfied.  (source)
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    His newborn cunning gave him poise and control.  (source)
    cunning = being good at achieving goals through cleverness
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    The woman's eyes were fastened on her face with a cunning triumph.  (source)
    cunning = clever
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    I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.  (source)
    cunningly = cleverly
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    I am far from believing the timid maxim[385] of Lord Falkland,[386] ("That for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms,") and am of opinion that the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through; and only that plenteous nature is rightful master, which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.†  (source)
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    There wasn't a trace of cunning in May, and you could depend on her not to overthink her answers.  (source)
    cunning = cleverness in deception
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    The Englishmen had hoarded these so cunningly that now, as the war was ending, they had three tons of sugar, one ton of coffee, eleven hundred pounds of chocolate, seven hundred pounds of tobacco, seventeen hundred pounds of tea, two tons of flour, one ton of canned beef, twelve hundred pounds of canned butter, sixteen hundred pounds of canned cheese, eight hundred pounds of powdered milk.†  (source)
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    'You are the demdest, knowing hand,' replied Mr Mantalini, in an admiring tone, 'the cunningest, rummest, superlativest old fox—oh dem!†  (source)
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    The tunnel was an example of his skill and cunning.  (source)
    cunning = cleverness
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    Cunningly deployed lighting and mirrors created the illusion of standing in a conservatory overlooking a wide stretch of exquisitely manicured garden.†  (source)
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    and after all, the cunningest scout of the whole Dahcotah nation might pass his life in searching for the spot where it fell, and be no wiser when his eyes grew dim, than when they were first opened.†  (source)
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    All the sharpness and cunning and quarrelsomeness ... seemed to have been washed away,  (source)
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