All 13 Uses of
cunning
in
The Two Towers
- It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer-crafty, having many guises.†
Chpt 3.2cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- They ran, and they ran, striving to keep up the pace set by the Orcs, licked every now and again with a cruel thong cunningly handled.†
Chpt 3.3cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- He is bold and cunning.†
Chpt 3.6cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Swords you do not need, but there are helms and coats of mail of cunning work, gifts to my fathers out of Gondor.†
Chpt 3.6
- Dwarves are said to be cunning folk with stone.†
Chpt 3.7
- This was Orthanc, the citadel of Saruman, the name of which had (by design or chance) a twofold meaning; for in the Elvish speech orthanc signifies Mount Fang, but in the language of the Mark of old the Cunning Mind.†
Chpt 3.8
- ' He looked up at them, and a faint light of cunning and eagerness flickered for a second in his pale blinking eyes.†
Chpt 4.1
- Among these a cunning eye and foot could thread a wandering path.†
Chpt 4.2
- Gollum certainly had that cunning, and needed all of it.
Chpt 4.2 *cunning = cleverness and ability to deceive others
- Frodo felt a strange certainty that in this matter Gollum was for once not so far from the truth as might be suspected; that he had somehow found a way out of Mordor, and at least believed that it was by his own cunning.†
Chpt 4.3cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome.†
Chpt 4.8
- ' So he thought in an inner chamber of his cunning, which he still hoped to hide from her, even when he had come to her again and had bowed low before her while his companions slept.†
Chpt 4.9
- It was probably only meant to be a stop against the intrusion of Shelob, fastened on the inside with some latch or bolt beyond the reach of her cunning.†
Chpt 4.10
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.