All 13 Uses of
cunning
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- Trolls were abroad, no longer dull-witted, but cunning and armed with dreadful weapons.†
Chpt 1.2cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- No one ever found out what had become of Deal; he was murdered far from home, and his body was cunningly hidden.†
Chpt 1.2cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- Light, light of Sun and Moon, he still feared and hated, and he always will, I think; but he was cunning.†
Chpt 1.2cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Old grey Willow-man, he's a mighty singer; and it's hard for little folk to escape his cunning mazes.†
Chpt 1.7
- But none were more dangerous than the Great Willow: his heart was rotten, but his strength was green; and he was cunning, and a master of winds, and his song and thought ran through the woods on both sides of the river.†
Chpt 1.7
- Indeed so much did Tom know, and so cunning was his questioning, that Frodo found himself telling him more about Bilbo and his own hopes and fears than he had told before even to Gandalf.†
Chpt 1.7
- It ran cunningly, taking a line that seemed chosen so as to keep as much hidden as possible from the view, both of the hill-tops above and of the flats to the west.†
Chpt 1.11cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.†
Chpt 2.1cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- How that was contrived we cannot guess; but Gollum is cunning, and the spies of the Enemy are many.†
Chpt 2.2
- It has seldom been heard of that Gandalf the Grey sought for aid, one so cunning and so wise, wandering about the lands, and concerning himself in every business, whether it belongs to him or not.†
Chpt 2.2
- For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron.†
Chpt 2.2
- If he was still following, he was very wary and cunning.
Chpt 2.9 *cunning = clever and deceptive
- It was dark, but not too dark for the night-eyes of Orcs, and in the star-glimmer they must have offered their cunning foes some mark, unless it was that the grey cloaks Of Lorien and the grey timber of the elf-wrought boats defeated the malice of the archers of Mordor.†
Chpt 2.9cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
Definitions:
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(1)
(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.