cunningness
- 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
Though she continued to pit her wits against the secret cunningness of the dreaded old man, Soosie was often preoccupied, seeming to regard herself as one not primarily concerned.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
It caused about as much excitement as had the failure of the bank because of its cunningness.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar
Masters may be more cunning than slaves, but cunningness is not an evidence of a high order of intellectual power.
From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by Brown, William Montgomery
