All 22 Uses
cunning
in
Watership Down
(Edited)
- And to each of them Frith gave the cunning and the fierceness and the desire to hunt and slay and eat the children of El-ahrairah.
p. 27.6cunning = cleverness and the ability to deceive
- For Frith has given the fox and the weasel cunning hearts and sharp teeth, and to the cat he has given silent feet and eyes that can see in the dark, and they are gone away from Frith's place to kill and devour all that belongs to El-ahrairah.
p. 27.9cunning = clever with the ability to deceive
- Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
p. 29.3 *cunning = clever and deceptive
- The eyes were peering at them, full of savage cunning.
p. 30.1cunning = cleverness and deception
- 'Ah, what deadly cunning!' said El-ahrairah.
p. 99.1
- They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?
p. 116.2
- The cunning hutch door had become nothing but a piece of wire netting, tacked to a frame made from four strips of half-by-half; and the rabbits sat on the planks, sniffing and nosing it without talking.
p. 215.6cunning = clever and deceptive
- It's partly to find out anything they can, and partly to train them and make them tough and cunning.
p. 234.8
- And then the patrol—if there is one—they'll be cunning brutes.
p. 265.4cunning = clever with the ability to deceive
- Men were the great danger, but this could be circumvented by cunning and discipline.
p. 305.2cunning = cleverness and deception
- Some of the members came from the Owsla, but others were selected solely for their loyalty or their cunning as advisers.
p. 306.1cunning = cleverness
- The patrols were the training grounds of cunning trackers, swift runners and fierce fighters, and the casualties—although there might be as many as five or six in a bad month—suited Woundwort's purpose, for numbers needed keeping down and there were always fresh vacancies in the Owsla, which the younger bucks did their best to be good enough to fill.
p. 307.4cunning = clever
- They are cunning and resourceful.
p. 325.9
- The Council are very cunning.
p. 327.7
- We've got some rabbits who are far more cunning, believe me.
p. 327.7
- I told you our rabbits were more cunning than the Council.
p. 328.8
- Are you cunning, too?
p. 330.1
- Cunning and resourceful in adversity, he had nearly succeeded in hurting the gull when he leaped at him out of the close cover by the plank bridge.
p. 415.2
- Then, when he had his quarry cornered in a place where Kehaar could not have done a great deal to help them, they had suddenly shown their own cunning greater than his, and left him bewildered on the bank.
p. 415.3cunning = cleverness
- At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate.
p. 421.3cunning = cleverness and deception
- He made rabbits bigger than they've ever been—braver, more skillful, more cunning.
p. 467.5cunning = clever
- It's cunning, see?
p. 468.7
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.