All 8 Uses of
cunning
in
The Jungle Book
- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
Chpt 1.cunning = cleverness
- Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
Chpt 1.cunning = clever
- He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
Chpt 1.cunningly = cleverly
- All the Jungle-People admire us for our skill and our cunning.
Chpt 3. *cunning = cleverness
- He is very old and very cunning.
Chpt 3.cunning = clever
- I am not afraid of Shere Khan, but Tabaqui is very cunning.
Chpt 5.
- There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam's eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.
Chpt 9.cunningly = cleverly
- Parade Song of the Camp Animals ELEPHANTS OF THE GUN TEAMS We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees; We bowed our necks to service: they ne'er were loosed again,— Make way there—way for the ten-foot teams Of the Forty-Pounder train!†
Chpt 14.
Definition:
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(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)