All 3 Uses
cunning
in
Major Barbara
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- CUSINS [disingenuously] Well—er—well, possibly, as a collector of religions— LOMAX [cunningly] Not as a drummer, though, you know.†
Act 3 *cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- No. They call him Dandy Andy and are proud of his being a cunning old rascal; but it's all horribly, frightfully, immorally, unanswerably perfect.†
Act 3cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Oh, tempter, cunning tempter!†
Act 3
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.