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
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
There was a fine cunningness about those forgotten builders who set up this royal pyramid.
From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
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 William Montgomery Brown
