cunning

How To Use cunning In A Sentence

• This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
• This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
• Their cunning plan was to turn the by-election into a referendum on the EU. Times, Sunday Times
• It was seldom spectacular, lacking the Van Gogh-like, wild-eyed artistry of Cunningham, but it worked.
• But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
• Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
• Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness. Literature and Life (Complete)
• If he was Argentinian you'd call him potrero, learning close control and cunning as a necessity. Real Madrid find 'Nemo' to their liking as Mesut Ozil settles in well
• Thus far, she had failed to show him either skill or cunning.
• He was too cunning to mention the work directly in the famous books he went on to write. Times, Sunday Times