All 11 Uses
cunning
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- But this was the place and, he remembered suddenly—and smiled, cunning—he hadn't told Kozlowski which house; Kozlowski had chosen it himself.†
Chpt 1cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- He stopped in his tracks, and cunning Miss Octave (as everyone said) whispered, "Don't murder us, young man.†
Chpt 1
- Cunningly—a sudden flash of genius—Clumly caught hold of the bearded man's hand, squeezed with all the force he had and hurled the man clumsily to the floor.†
Chpt 2cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- She accused him of things he knew himself not guilty of (but he was guilty), taught him every bitter grief a cunning and systematic woman's hatred could conceive, drove him half out of his mind with anguish until, at last, their two sons and daughter dispersed, they had gratefully escaped each other by divorce.†
Chpt 3cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- His eyes grew cunning.†
Chpt 3
- It was a cunning she had been born with, to know what she could do and couldn't and when helpless to keep it hidden, watch and wait; or a natural cunning refined after fifty-two years into an art.†
Chpt 4
- It was a cunning she had been born with, to know what she could do and couldn't and when helpless to keep it hidden, watch and wait; or a natural cunning refined after fifty-two years into an art.†
Chpt 4
- He would make it, and afterward, "silence, exile, cunning.†
Chpt 7
- He was not cunning enough to know viciousness when he heard it, so idiotic that he believed in full confidence that his antique saws were parries.†
Chpt 7
- Still the old eyes searched him, cunning and baffled and something else too; after an instant Hodge caught what it was: wounded.†
Chpt 13 *
- A cunning joke.†
Chpt 14
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.