All 5 Uses of

cunning
in
The Souls of Black Folk

And the sea cried to the hills and the hills answered the sea, till the city rose like a widow and cast away her weeds, and toiled for her daily bread; toiled steadily, toiled cunningly,—perhaps with some bitterness, with a touch, of reclame,—and yet with real earnestness, and real sweat.†
Chpt 5

cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others

So the city crowned her hundred hills with factories, and stored her shops with cunning handiwork, and stretched long iron ways to greet the busy Mercury in his coming.†
Chpt 5

cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception

On the strong and cunning few Cynic favors I will strew; I will stuff their maw with overplus until their spirit dies; From the patient and the low I will take the joys they know; They shall hunger after vanities and still an-hungered go.†
Chpt 8

At the same time, too, we know that these considerations have never adequately explained or excused the triumph of brute force and cunning over weakness and innocence.†
Chpt 9 *

The crop-lien system which is depopulating the fields of the South is not simply the result of shiftlessness on the part of Negroes, but is also the result of cunningly devised laws as to mortgages, liens, and misdemeanors, which can be made by conscienceless men to entrap and snare the unwary until escape is impossible, further toil a farce, and protest a crime.†
Chpt 9

cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others

Definitions:

(1) (cunning as in: a cunning thief)
being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.