cunning
noun
skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
cunningness
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a word derived from
cunning.
Example Sentences
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Both “Squid Game” and the reality competition series “Squid Game: The Challenge,” which premiered Nov. 22, pushed contestants to the brink, testing their mental strength and cunningness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Baby Peggy's public is composed of persons with an unbounded capacity for "cunningness" in other people's children.
From Time Magazine Archive
The truth had come so forcibly, so impulsively, so abruptly, that it had for the time overcome his cunningness; but only for a moment after the other had disappeared was he so.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
Before the bishop spoke agin you could see his craziness and his cunningness both working in his face.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
With a cunningness far out of the ordinary, the poor girl crept along the shrubbery in the direction of the barn.
From The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective by Chester K. Steele
