Both Uses
cunning
in
The Most Dangerous Game
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- I started for the Amazon to hunt jaguars, for I had heard they were unusually cunning.
*cunning = cleverness and deceptive
- And the answer was of course: 'It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.'†
cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
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.