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
But they knew well, that the churchman was a far cunninger, as well as a more learned, man than themselves. Hereward, the Last of the English
Now, a fisherman can always throw a catch he doesn't like back, but, ultimately, no matter how cunning and patient a sportsman he is, what ends up in his creel is really up to the fish. INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
Perhaps one could justify riches as the reward for the skill, diligence, foresight and cunning of the original creator.
She cunningly milked him for anything she could learn about who his master was.
She's accompanied here by some cracking musicians, including Cunningham himself on piano, cittern and whistles, with Ed Boyd's deft guitar and the bodhrán of Mark Maguire.
It is also a question of low political cunning. Times, Sunday Times
So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In their hands, too, was almost all the science of the day; their _medicine_, _botany, _ and _astronomy_ displaced the old nomenclature of _leechdom_, _wort-cunning, _ and _star-craft_. Brief History of English and American Literature
He is cunning and sly (he can remove my debit card from under my nose) and is parasitic with poor behaviour controls. Times, Sunday Times
He is kidnapped and his friends try to save him - but are are captured by the Queen's crafty cunning.
For this play to work, as it did so well in Cunningham, you need a strong, activist local community whose denizens talk across partisan political lines.
Or maybe it was part of a cunning ruse not to get arrested. Times, Sunday Times
She just acts so selfish and cunning. The Sun
We docs know your little tricks and cunning ways. Times, Sunday Times
Ray was oblivious to my cunning and sly plan, and I kept it that way.
The female fox is called a vixen, but if a human is called a vixen, the connotation is an attractive but cunning woman! Summit Daily News - Top Stories
If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot
The cheese, of course, dropped to the ground and was promptly snapped up by the cunning fox. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
He knew the man -- H'yemba, the cunning ironsmith, one who in other days had before now crossed his will and, dog-like, snarled as much as he had dared. Darkness and Dawn
Cunning things thrive in sunless dungeons
It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye. Sons and Lovers
Crafty once meant powerful, and cunning meant knowledgeable; each has gradually taken on negative connotations (this is called pejoration). Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral
Hence the term wiki--coined a decade ago by programmer Howard Cunningham--which means "hurry quick" in Hawaiian. Entrepreneurs, Start Your Wikis
It was a crossbarred pattern, with many hues cunningly interwoven. The Color of Her Panties
To these qualities he added cunning and a sense of timing in political intrigue. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
But the honey-bee has absolutely no wit or cunning outside of her special gifts as a gatherer and storer of honey. An Idyl of the Honey-bee
I've put out feelers to get someone right inside the Cunningham community coalition to explain to us how the miracle happened.
I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design.
She was dressed in a classic black silk gown with a sable stole cunningly draped around her shoulders so that the moth holes wouldn't show. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
During the opening credit sequence, the main character cunningly eludes a patrol car.
At all levels, cunning teachers allied with overbearing students.
But elders get to be elders by being cunning and crafty.
These are two young bucks full of guile and cunning, mobile and versatile in the modern fashion and eager to wreak havoc with Dutch organisation.
More than once he bailed his master out of dangerous situation not by using force, but cunning tricks.
Withal, as if to wear the time, Birdalone betook her diligently to her needlework, and fell to the cunningest of broidery; so that The Water of the Wondrous Isles
But this is simply a cunning trick to make you forget that you're over-paying for this protection!
JONAH BOKAER'S new "Anchises," which features an intriguing set of collaborators; the design group Harrison Atelier, a commissioned score by Loren Dempster, and the former Cunningham dancer Valda Setterfield, who should never be missed. NYT > Home Page
The peaked chauffeur's cap must have worked as a cunning disguise. Times, Sunday Times
This is considered the purest form of Poker - where more often than not, but not always, skill and cunning overcomes opportunism.
John would see my brilliant tactical plan and organize a cunning defence…
It is also a question of low political cunning. Times, Sunday Times
By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
He was supposedly a cunning manipulator who lured his adversary into a fatal trap.
He is cunning as a fox.
Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the The Golf Course Mystery
Having determined on murder, he then planned the crime - normally a poisoning - with the utmost cunning, only to be undone by some small unforeseen error.
Was his slow pace a cunning ruse? Times, Sunday Times
That movie is about cunning, wit and irony - as incarnated in the larger-than-life figure of an Austrian super-star who is more American than millions of native-borns.
Here he personifies folk cunning, good humour and common sense.
De Waal charts the secrecy and alchemy surrounding the race for porcelain: the great riches and low cunning that enveloped the mystery. Times, Sunday Times
The men Columba sent forth were not only able teachers of Christian truth, they were skilful agriculturists, trained artisans, and cunning handicraftsmen.
It is a grand oligarchy, with immense force and push -- with cunning and skilful intrigue -- in whose plenipotent fingers the threads of the universal octopus centralizes its splendid capabilities in a papal head. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
His cunning, speed, condition, and endurance can tax the physique and patience of his pursuers to the utmost.
She was a rather cunning and sly teenager by nature, accented by her narrow brown eyes and usual smirk.
Reluctant to muzzle her guest directly, Ross hatched a cunning plan.
It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need.
She's a cunning little devil! She left for school as usual, and then went into town instead with her friends.
It has no message, but entertains with wit, cunning, malice and a wicked twist in the tale.
a big kind of lapwing and snipe; but the snipe here were cunning, and got up wild and flew far, so I only got a small bag. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
But, for Homer, there is a calculated pun on words too, because his hero is a cunning schemer.
Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV series)do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying.
Wolcott is referring to Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct," according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Azcentral.com | news
Let not my length and my breadth nor yet my bulk delude thee, with respect to the son of Adam; for he, of the excess of his guile and his cunning, fashions for me a thing called a hobble and hobbles my four legs with ropes of palm-fibres, bound with felt, and makes me fast by the head to a high picket, so that I remain standing and can neither sit nor lie down, being tied up. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
Katona decided to end her relationship with Cunningham, her childhood sweetheart, following allegations that he had cheated on her with his ex-girlfriend.
The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust.
'Does Mr. Gray realize what a great compliment he has paid me, a poor rustic, an untutored country girl, with a little knowledge about the bees and clover, and some cunning as to the tricks of breachy cattle? Four Canadian Highwaymen
Then we have Iris and Hermes, the servants and messengers of Zeus; and next Hephaestus's smithy, which is stocked with all manner of cunning contrivances. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01
Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
I'll cut tj_han some slack because he is a poor oppressed conscript drafted unwillingly into Singapore's army at a young age as photographer or what I call a cushy public affairs job, not that I blame him for being cunning and crafty the lucky git. Anime Nano!
Was his slow pace a cunning ruse? Times, Sunday Times
From the main courses, Cunningham chose tender pan-fried octopus with sliced raw onions, scallions, and a robust dose of chili.
I will compound a medicine, out of their two heads, stronger than garlic, deadlier than stibium: the cantharides, which are scarce seen to stick upon the flesh, when they work to the heart, shall not do it with more silence or invisible cunning. The White Devil
What he may lack in finesse or cunning, he makes up for in raw firepower.
Beginning by ridiculing Cunningham's numerous bookish allusions – nothing makes a novel seem more vulnerable, more naked, than an armour-plating of literary references. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
Yet Cole has a cunning plan. Times, Sunday Times
The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental. Speaking in Tongues
She was a cunning old besom and had seen instantly through Janet and my efforts to be professional and pleasant.
This evening there was no sprinkling of locals to gaze at us unashamedly out of cunning, peasanty eyes. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation... Edwin Eisendrath: It's the Democracy, Stupid!
Accordingly, he had restrained his own consumption just as Cunningham's had begun to accelerate out of control.
Cunningham went straight for the jugular, telling him that his work was a complete disaster.
They were like demons, cunningly abseiling upwards to the ceiling to hang over me all night. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
Moby, the electro musician, has a cunning plan to garner good reviews. Times, Sunday Times
To these qualities he added cunning and a sense of timing in political intrigue. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
It frowns on anything that could have cost silly amounts without allowing for personal ingenuity and cunning. Times, Sunday Times
Thro out the history, British had ruled any country only using its "cunningness" ... Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Cunningham's troupe is silhouetted, at right below, in a 1964 poster by artist Robert Rauschenberg, one of the choreographer's longtime collaborators.
Oh, and a nuanced take on bringing involute cunning to a ruthlessness contest. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
the cunning maneuvers leading to his success
He was cunning, sly and a good strategist, beating her at games of wits when others can't.
Those who excel in this struggle distinguish themselves through nothing more exotic than boundless cunning and ruthlessness.
Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware.
And there wasn't a cunningly concealed cupboard to be seen. Times, Sunday Times
Unselfish or magnanimous lies serve as sort of social lubricant; injurious or malicious lies show the worst of human deception and cunning. Dr T.P.Chia
But the wiles he shows, the cunningness he exhibits and opportunism that he cashes on made him a hit.
The one thing certain is that Kaspar had the sensitive or 'mediumistic' temperament, which usually -- though not always -- is accompanied by hysteria, while hysteria means cunning and fraud, whether conscious or not so conscious. Historical Mysteries
And this was thought no small peece of cunning, being in deed a matter of some difficultie to finde out so many wordes beginning with one letter as might make a iust volume, thought in truth it were but a phantasticall deuise and to no purpose at all more then to make them harmonicall to the rude eares of those barbarous ages. The Arte of English Poesie
From Wingate, Dayan learned the importance of surprise, cunning, compassion and the instillation of fear.
They learned the ways of the fish and the shell-fish, and they invented hooks and lines, nets and fish-traps, and all the diverse cunning ways by which swimming meat can be garnered from the shifting, unstable sea. CHAPTER X
One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity. Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
Cunningly, there is a cool duffle bag in colours to match in which to carry your towel and bestseller. Times, Sunday Times
cunning men often pass for wise
It almost seemed like even the odd bum notes were cunningly placed to assure you the band weren't just up there miming to the albums.
To bring us exclusives, documentary film-makers, like journalists, depend on a mixture of luck and cunning.
He did not like so much the unproportionate blows that Don Belianis gave and took in fight; for, as he imagined, were the surgeons never so cunning that cured them, yet was it impossible but that the patient his face and all his body must remain full of scars and tokens. The First Part. I. Wherein Is Rehearsed the Calling and Exercise of the Renowned Gentleman, Don Quixote of the Mancha
DENVER — Police Officer Vicki Ferrari appeared as a contestant on "American Gladiators" to battle bodybuilders through obstacle courses in tests of strength, agility and cunning. 'American Gladiators' Cop Denies Anger While Making Arrest
Craft and cunning are necessary for the scheme to work.
The wicked woman in yesterday's case was cunning and manipulative. The Sun
It was apparently a way of giving your friend his head in an argument and progging him into a pit by cunning questions. MY EARLY LIFE
As we've mentioned in previous articles, the Government cunningly includes earnings growth in that figure.
The audience is tempted to appropriate the position within the play it believes possesses the most cunning and insight into the play itself.
If they had any skills other than devious animal cunning, they would have looked closer at the boy.
[162] _Aish hakam iodea binah_, "a cunning man, endued with understanding," is the description given by the king of Tyre of Hiram The Symbolism of Freemasonry
He is cunning and sly (he can remove my debit card from under my nose) and is parasitic with poor behaviour controls. Times, Sunday Times
Even more cunning, some of the gorillas pretend to be tranquilized.
In fact, Houdini relied on great skill, low cunning, and keeping tiny metal picklocks concealed about his person.
The Gherkin, found in the Square mile, is cunningly crafted out of two types of melon and embedded with green beans to highlight its renowned spiralling glass frames.
When he reached the wire, however, he saw at once that its strength was an illusion, for the whole concertina was held in place by an unbarbed loop hung loosely over the twisted end of a broken railing: surmounting the cunning defences of Standingham Castle wasn't going to be such a problem after all, thank heavens! War Game
In 1853, Louisa Dalton Bird Cunningham was aboard a steamer on the Potomac sailing from Philadelphia to her plantation in South Carolina when she saw Mount Vernon in a shambles.
They were cunning and trustless, narrow - slitted and heavy-lidded, at one and the same time as sharp as a ferret's and as indolent as a basking lizard's. The Jacket (Star-Rover)
Tighten the inhaul & outhaul a bit, and also use some cunningham to smoothe most of the creases.
There was no doubt that they would be able to intercept the fugitives, but it would take skill and cunning and not a little luck to close the jaws and trap the prey between them.
I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Seeing the "way" of reason -- its "cunningness" -- is one of those insights only visible to astute observers, according to Hegel, at the end of history. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Robert Cunningham, 35, who suffered a broken rib in the fracas, admitted assault.
Backyard describes lumber from the tree scientifically named Cunninghamia lanceolata as cedar. Archive 2009-10-01
It was obviously a cunning ploy to secure column inches for a particular company.
And have they come up with a cunning plan to beat the web? Times, Sunday Times
I listened intently, for he was right, his plans were very cunning.
If all six cunning plans are too much for one sitting, the final three are shown again tomorrow from 9pm. Times, Sunday Times
Rommel was supposed to have gained victory over the British through his superior military skills and cunning.
That is the heart and soul of the Constitutional structure, and what makes it unique among such documents in the world, so much so that widely different minds, from Ho Chi Minh to Kurt Goedel, appreciated its cunning and structural subtilty. Ron Paul’s Good News « Antiwar.com Blog
He had begun his career as an "ambulance chaser," had risen later to the dignity of a police court lawyer, and now was of the type that might be called, for want of a better name, a high class "shyster" -- unscrupulous, sharp, cunning. The Ear in the Wall
US Navy boffinry chiefs say they have successfully tested a cunning, heavily augmented crane which allows containers to be loaded on and off ships tossing on the waves out at sea, removing the need for a harbour when mounting an invasion or delivering humanitarian aid. The Register
Here was he, the individual, very possibly placed on -- at all events, infesting -- a particular planet for a considerable number of years; the planet was so elaborately constructed, so richly clothed with trees and valleys and uplands and running waters and multitudinary grass-blades, and the body that housed Felix Kennaston was so intricately wrought with tiny bones and veins and sinews, with sockets and valves and levers, and little hairs which grew upon the body like grass-blades about the earth, that it seemed unreasonable to suppose this much cunning mechanism had been set agoing aimlessly: and so, he often wondered if he was not perhaps expected to devote these years of human living to some intelligible purpose? The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
The earliest appearance of it in England is in a book printed by John Day in 1559, William Cunningham's The cosmographical glasse. Archive 2008-04-01
We loosed off a few shots at the various damaged crockery I had scavenged and then I thought I would try a cunning scheme.
Those that knew Levis as a friend, colleague, or teacher sometimes found it puzzling to try to reconcile the good humor, whimsy, and carelessness of the man with the artfulness, erudition, cunning, and darkness of his poetry.
This is their characteristic diplomacy -- the fruit of generations of sharpening wits against savages; and the same is called Kaffir cunning, and is not understood at first by European people. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs
The story is narrated by the chieftain's second son, widely regarded as an ‘idiot’ but possessing both wisdom and cunning.
Kevin Cunningham - Well, I love the idea of hyping up a fight with the two best BoxingScene.com
The play, of course, was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire.
Tom however, through cunning reasoning skills, is able to get what he needs.
This is why underdogs so often have to resort to deception and look for a cunning plan. Times, Sunday Times
They were cunningly disguised in golf clothes.
This year the ingenious Councillor has thought up a cunning plan that will see the town's streets swept clean of dog dirt.
And assure your selves worthy Ladies, that I doe not tell this tale onely to follow the order enjoyned me; but also to informe you that such Saint-like holy Sirs, of whom we are too opinionate and credulous, may be, yea and are (divers times) cunningly met withall, in theyr craftinesse, not onely by men, but likewise some of our owne sexe, as shall make it apparant to you. The Decameron
In people's minds, Shylock is a cunning, cruel and venomous Jewish usurer.
The forn was a bold Man, and durft do any thing that v brave: The latter was a cunning Statefman. The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy [G.P. Marana] at Paris. Tr. [by W. Bradshaw ...
They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy.
Jones upset the 40th-ranked American, Cunningham.
Can you spot his cunning idea? Times, Sunday Times
Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead. Brit Lit Blogs
Mrs Cunningham gave me a calculating look over my sketchpad that was filled with spite and dislike.
It was either that or some boat that had built-in outriggers, each with its own dagger board (which was cunningly interchangeable with the rudder blade), and a central driving seat.
The hidden message here is that we expect people who are blessed with qualities like economic acumen, leadership and intelligence to be cursed with the obverse traits of greed, megalomania and ruthless cunning.
Upstairs, besides the bedrooms, was a little chapel with some remains of Gothic carving, and a few interesting pictures of the fifteenth century; a cunningly contrived priest-hole, and a long gallery lined with dusty books, whither my lord used to repair on rainy days. Vanishing England
Well, then, I will be as plain as ever I can be, only premising that what you call the cunning of the serpent -- The Seaboard Parish Volume 1
The only Shakespeare play written entirely in verse, it contrasts the high-flown ideals of Richard with the low cunning of Henry Bolingbroke, the man who overthrows him and later has him murdered.
Scott definitions: "poikilia = metaph: cunning; pleonexia = a disposition to take more than one's share; polupragmosunê = meddling. Plato and Platonism
It's a cunning skill, even more so as you can reverse the stroke in order to go backwards.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary 'Machiavellianism' is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", but as the quote above from 'The Prince' shows Machiavelli was also a pragmatic realist. ZDNet News - News Page One
If it was a cunning plan, it certainly worked. Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe it was part of a cunning ruse not to get arrested. Times, Sunday Times
For there it plainelie appeareth, that the adder heareth not the voice of the charmer, charme he never so cunninglie: contrarie to the poets fabling, Some Meme or Other
With a little bit of knowledge of code coupled with cunningness, a hacker can cause havoc to the users of these phones, whether it is blackberry or iPhone or Windows Mobile. The flip side of using Smart Phones
He is cunning and sly (he can remove my debit card from under my nose) and is parasitic with poor behaviour controls. Times, Sunday Times
What's provocative about Copeland's book is how he doesn't stick to just what's on the stage, as so many dance-critic purists do, but draws associations and contrasts with other art dynamics, such as demonstrating how Cunningham's light, flexible, transistorized movements answered the heavy clomp and primitivism of Jackson Pollock's action painting and the archetypal contortions of Martha Graham. Mind Expansion thru Sight and Sound: James Wolcott
Were it merely with a view to more effectual carnage, this art (however simple and gross at first) opened at length into wide scientific arts, into strategies, into tactics, into castrametation, into poliorcetics, and all the processes through which the first rude efforts of martial cunning finally connect themselves with the exquisite resources of science. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2
It was decidedly hard to do with Mr Cunningham's cold, judging, calculating eyes were staring at us.
Dean Potter's most recent solo walk at Taft Point in Yosemite by Photographer Jeff Cunningham.
Acherontic cave, he very cunningly appropriated his torch; and it was not until the matter became serious, that he could be induced to restore it. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
Moby, the electro musician, has a cunning plan to garner good reviews. Times, Sunday Times
They had to endear themselves both to the other people in the house and to the nation at large, and so we became voyeurs into their most cunning manipulations and most private moments.
Through our glasses we made him out to be a bull -- an old greyhead, and probably a cunning fellow, one likely to try every dodge which a whale can think of to escape, and if failing to do that, and hard pressed, one who was likely to turn on his pursuers, and attack them with his open jaws or mighty flukes. Old Jack
She was described as prepossessing, “open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.” Elizabeth Fry
He was manipulative and cunning, and would resort to anything to get his own way. Times, Sunday Times
It is easy to see him as a cynical and cunning threat who could harm himself and others, and who could potentially inspire others like him. Times, Sunday Times
Even though she doesn't invent what she does, she has the cunning and intelligence to pick up on other people's style so immediately that it's like she thought of it.
It took energy and cunning just to survive.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
He subsequently discovers the whereabouts of the photograph by a cunning ruse.
But one night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
Each new executive arrival pushes property prices up and increases the power of a growing band of cunning, unscrupulous, downright dishonest rental agents. Times, Sunday Times
However, in Antony's eulogy, he focuses on Caesar's positive traits, and cunningly disproves Brutus' justification for killing Caesar.
There is not one iota of effort, thought or cunning that he will not bring to the cause. Times, Sunday Times
His cunning intelligence chief was General Tai Li, a short and stocky man always dressed in a khaki coat buttoned tightly at the collar, whose teeth were laced with gold bridgework that he exposed during the rare times he smiled. Wild Bill Donovan
Craft and cunning were necessary for the scheme to work.

How To Use Cunning In A Sentence

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