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Definition
being good at achieving goals through cleverness — and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
- Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain.Chapter 8 (41% in)
cunning = clever and deceptive
- ...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.Chapter 1 (17% in)
- 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?"Chapter 1 (21% in)
cunning = being good at achieving goals through cleverness
cunning = cleverness and deception
There are no more uses of "cunning" in All Quiet on the Western Front.
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