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• She had a fiendish smile that hinted at a cunning plan.From the entry fiendish
• They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.From the entry fetch
• Not so big, mayhap, but fierce beyond measure, cunning, and gripsome o'life.2015, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions. From the entry gripsome
• Or did I have a plan that was so cunning as to outcun baldrickensian cunningness?2014 December 13, Nils Visser, wyrdewoods (blog). From the entry outcun
• She had, through viciousness and cunning, parlayed her unique value into a position of power.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Canrum. From the entry lie with
• “The Pitiguara chieftain is brave and bold: Irapuã is cunning and treacherous like the acauã.”2000, José de Alencar, translated by Clifford E. Landers, Iracema. From the entry acauã
• Samson, with all the cunning of a rhetorical master, cornered him.1996, Beverley Harper, Storms Over Africa. From the entry borrow
• Then Fauchenkircher's cunning would transform into Casanovan plots to steal these desirable fruits from the Waldstein orchard.1991, Wolf Mankowitz, A Night With Casanova, page 23. From the entry Casanovan
• This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment.1990, Spin, volume 5, number 12. From the entry flailsome
• A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning.1955, John Ray, Jr. [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Foreword”, in Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge]…. From the entry tendresse
• Did you think you could match cunning with me - you with your walnut of a brain?1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry scribbler
• How could Blaine get over Grover’s cunning lack of a middle initial?1908 December 5, Chicago News, “The Fatal Middle Name. How It Has Proved a Hoodoo to Presidential Candidates.”, in The Cincinnati…. From the entry middle-nameless
• These royalists are good swordsmen, and the Englishman is devilish cunning, and looks very powerful.1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March…. From the entry hors de combat
• Kim (Jong-un) is cunning. (Donald) Trump is cunning.2018 May 19, Bill Hutcheson on SavannahNow.com, Savannah Morning News (news). From the entry outcun
• He didn't call her his “ale wife,” but it soon became apparent that she had “good wort cunning.”2017, Jon C. Stott, Beer 101 North. From the entry wortcunning
• Heh, i don't think she was that cunning to begin with, but romancing the Egg has rubbed off on her ;D.2015 October 10, SerNugll, Reddit. From the entry egg
• Odysseus was wily, cunning, and adaptable, a grandson of the archrogue Autolycus and favored by Athena for his intelligence.2014, Alexander Blackburn, The Myth of the Picaro, page 58. From the entry archrogue
• Benjamin Franklin was the colonies’ master statesman and cunning linguist who charmed the pantaloons off the court of Versailles.2010 May, Spencer Walker, Cook to Bang: The Lay Cook's Guide to Getting Laid, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry the pantaloons off
• Wort cunning is knowledge of the herbs.2008, Christopher Penczak, The Living Temple of Witchcraft Volume One: The Descent of the Goddess. From the entry wortcunning
• Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 236d. From the entry utmost
• Jackeen in the city always meant a cunning, loudmouthed, ignorant youth: while Gurrier was a term of approbation.1983, Benedict Kiely, compiler, Dublin (Small Oxford Books), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry gurrier
• He made a good-living, wine-and-food-society impression in which only the slow, rather cunning blue eyes struck a false note.1960, Ian Fleming, “From a View To a Kill”, in For Your Eyes Only, London: Jonathan Cape. From the entry strike a false note
• "It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer-crafty, having many guises."1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers. From the entry dwimmer
• They played you off very cunning, Eliza.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company…. From the entry chaperone
• In mock obeisance bow him low And he succumbs your slave: a show Of high respect will undercraft His cunning wit!1901, Charles Richard Panter, Granuaile: A Queen of the West, page 94. From the entry undercraft
• Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand.July 1900, Jack London, “The Dignity of Dollars”, in Overland Monthly, volume 36, number 211, pages 53–57. From the entry rope of sand
• To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.2024 February 3, Joshua Chaffin, “Glossy new neighbourhood rises from a seedy slice of Miami vice”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial…. From the entry beard
• Yet this enterprise was a slippery one; fictitious etymologies and overclever wordplay were the province of the logodaedalus: a dangerously cunning wordsmith..2018, Alexander Marr, Raphaele Garrod, Jose Ramon Marcaida, Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe. From the entry logodaedalus
• As every last Frey man swigs their special wine, Walder hypes the cunning it took to invite guests into your home and ambush them.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry keel over
• Maldor may been the least powerful of Zokar's apprentices, but he possesses a cunning intellect, and in a wizardless world his abilities were suddenly formidable.2011, Brandon Mull, A World Without Heroes, page 42. From the entry wizardless
• Ignatyev was cunning, agile and bold.2009, Christopher Meyer, Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: The Inside Story of British Diplomacy, London: Weidenfeld &…. From the entry Outer Manchuria
• Those Baby Boomers are evilly cunning.2007, D. L. Birchfield, How Choctaws Invented Civilization and why Choctaws Will Conquer the World. From the entry kazillion
• These mighty warriors carry hefty warblades into combat and rely greatly upon the cunning and ferocity of their faithful dire-wolf mounts to defeat their enemies.2002, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Game Manual, Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, page 87. From the entry warblade
• A cunning (but comfortable) piece of stiff bodicing showed off more cleavage than she was used to, and emphasized her narrow waist and curvaceous hips.1998, Maxine Barry, Dark Desire, London: Scarlet, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry bodicing
• Stephen Potter is best known for his gamesmanship theory, a cunning, psychological tactic used to best a competitor, on or off the field.1996, Steven H. Gale, Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, page 874. From the entry -manship
• A thousand cunning things they do, To urge me to misanthropize; My heart is filled with endless rue — (It does no good to alkalize).1957, High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City. From the entry misanthropize
• Cunning and ingenuity, combined with the required alertness, a perfect rein, coupled with years of actual work, produce that rarest of range mounts—the cutting horse.1911, Andy Adams, chapter 21, in Wells Brothers. From the entry cutting horse
• Delinquent ticketees cunning enough to avoid that fate may still find a block placed on their class registration access when the end of the semester rolls around.2001 January, University of Nebraska at Omaha, The Gateway, Volume 01, Issue 33, page 2. From the entry ticketee

Meaning of cunning

1. adjective Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
2. adjective Skillful, artful.
3. adjective Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.

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How do you use cunning in a sentence?

Cunning is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “She had a fiendish smile that hinted at a cunning plan.”

What is a short sentence with cunning?

“Ignatyev was cunning, agile and bold.”

What does cunning mean?

Cunning means sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.