All 16 Uses of
cunning
in
A Dance With Dragons
- Stalker was leaner, quicker, younger, Sly more cunning, but both went in fear of One Eye.†
p. 10.6cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- He knows much and more of our true enemy, and there is cunning in him, I'll grant you.†
p. 60.3
- Ser Barristan is a valiant knight and true; but none, I think, has ever called him cunning.†
p. 84.5
- No, a cunning man.†
p. 169.8
- Its walls and floor and ceiling were made of wooden planks notched cunningly together and decorated with all the creatures of the sea.†
p. 267.1cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- Roose Bolton's cold and cunning, aye, but a man can deal with Roose.†
p. 275.3cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Of their wisdom I cannot speak, but they do not lack for cunning.†
p. 314.9
- "The Boltons have always been as cruel as they were cunning, but this one seems a beast in human skin," said Glover.†
p. 431.3 *
- The Cerwyfis and the Tallharts are not to be relied on, my fat friend Lord Wyman plots betrayal, and Whoresbane ...the Umbers may seem simple, but they are not without a certain low cunning.†
p. 472.4
- Killing him brought the Freys and Manderlys to dagger points, that was cunning, you—†
p. 742.3
- The peacock calls himself Kasporio the Cunning, though Kasporio the Cunt would be more apt.†
p. 840.8
- Her captain owned a Myrish eye that made far-off things look close—two glass lenses in a series of brass tubes, cunningly wrought so that each section slid into the next, until the eye was no longer than a dirk.†
p. 907.9cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- Kasporio the Cunning touched his sword hilt.†
p. 942.2cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- For Kasporio the Cunning, ten thousand dragons.†
p. 945.0
- Plumm's not-so-cunning second-in-command claimed that three Yunkish slave-catchers were prowling through the camps, asking after a pair of escaped dwarfs.†
p. 947.6
- Amongst the free folk, when a man desires a woman, he steals her, and thus proves his strength, his cunning, and his courage.†
p. 987.6
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.