All 16 Uses
cunning
in
The Once and Future King
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- When men themselves became wicked they took refuge there, outlaws cunning and bloody as the gore-crow, and as persecuted.†
Book 1cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- You can see the shafts of the huge chimneys and how cunningly the side flues were contrived to enter them, and the little private closets now public, and the enormous kitchen.†
Book 1cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- He moved his own fins anti-clockwise, gave the tip of his tail a cunning flick, and was lying alongside the tench.†
Book 1 *cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- For the mere sport of catching them, of shouting and laughing and feeling giddy as they looked up, and of darting about to trap the creatures, which were certainly alive in the cunning with which they slipped away, the two boys were prancing about like young fauns in the ruin of the year.†
Book 1
- Vigilant, powdery, odorous and loose-feathered—so that dogs object to take them in their mouths—armoured against pellets by the padding of these feathers, the pigeons coo to one another with true love, nourish their cunningly hidden children with true solicitude, and flee from the aggressor with true philosophy —a race of peace lovers continually caravaning away from the destructive Indian in covered wagons.†
Book 1cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- "You are a cunning master," said Archimedes, "and as far as a poor owl is concerned you will just have to get away with it.†
Book 1cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- He had fair hair and a stupid face, or at any rate there was a lack of cunning in it It was an open face, with kind eyes and a reliable or faithful expression, as though he were a good learner who enjoyed being alive and did not believe in original sin.†
Book 2
- You are a cunning lad, Arthur, but you won't catch your old tutor like that You are trying to put me in a passion by making me do the thinking.†
Book 2
- Had they come, with typical Sassenach cunning, so as to take King Lot in the rear?†
Book 2
- Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?†
Book 2
- She said to herself that Lancelot had betrayed her, that she was the victim of Elaine's cunning, that her lover was sure to betray her again.†
Book 3
- The hand looked as if it had been fitted to the arm by a cunning doll maker.†
Book 3
- They were the race whose barbarous, cunning, valiant defiance had been enslaved, long centuries before, by the foreign people whom Arthur represented.†
Book 4
- They are too cunning.†
Book 4
- It is Gawaine's black, temper and Mordred's cunning.†
Book 4
- That is because he is too cunning.†
Book 4
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.