All 6 Uses
cunning
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
(Auto-generated)
- "To give the letter," said I. "No," says he, cunningly, "but ye'll have had some hopes, nae doubt?"†
Chpt 3cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- "Can I have a light, sir?" said I. "Na," said he, very cunningly.†
Chpt 4
- Play me false, and I'll play you cunning.†
Chpt 9cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- He then began to question me cunningly, where I came from, whether I was rich, whether I could change a five-shilling piece for him (which he declared he had that moment in his sporran), and all the time he kept edging up to me and I avoiding him.†
Chpt 15cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- "I have nae clear mind about his coat," said Alan cunningly, "but it sticks in my head that it was blue."†
Chpt 18 *
- A projection of the cliff had been cunningly employed to be the fireplace; and the smoke rising against the face of the rock, and being not dissimilar in colour, readily escaped notice from below.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
-
(1)
(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.