All 15 Uses
cunning
in
The Border Legion
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- She resolved to try it, to use all her woman's intuition and wit and cunning.†
Chpt 3cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Joan stood up then, no longer sincere and forgetful, but the girl with her deep and cunning game.†
Chpt 4
- The cunning of a woman!†
Chpt 5
- He's cunning.†
Chpt 6
- If she could be deceitful, cunning, shameless in holding out to Kells a possible return of his love, she could do anything with him.†
Chpt 8
- She must use all the strength and wit and cunning and charm to keep his other personality in the ascendancy, else all was futile.†
Chpt 9
- He looked eager, passionate, cunning, hard as steel, and that strange brightness of elation slowly shaded to a dark, brooding menace.†
Chpt 11
- Then Kells either gave way to leaping passion or simulated it in the interest of his cunning.†
Chpt 11
- All the fire of Joan's heart flared up to deny the insult and all her woman's cunning fought to keep back words that inevitably must lead to revelation.†
Chpt 11
- With all his intelligence and cunning power, his cause was hopeless.†
Chpt 13
- Sometimes he won, however, and then he would crow over Pearce and Smith, and delight in telling them how cunningly he had played.†
Chpt 14cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- Rumor gave it a leader of cunning and ruthless nature.†
Chpt 14cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Joan had a blind faith that Jim would be cunning enough to fool Kells and Pearce.†
Chpt 15
- In the silence that ensued Pearce's spirit dominated the moment with its cunning, hate, and violence.†
Chpt 16 *
- "But it—it wasn't—all—a lie," said Joan, and her words came haltingly because a force stronger than her cunning made her speak.†
Chpt 16
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) At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.