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  • Men are cunning. (10)
  • Were they cunning enough? (8)
  • Her dialectic, too, was cunning. (10)
  • Save one was too cunning for me. (10)
  • And this was an infernal cunning. (10)
  • He is still the cunning musician. (10)
  • I do think men are cunning brutes. (8)
  • Lord, what cunning dogs they are! (10)
  • I saw his cunning old eye on-cock. (10)
  • Even in their rage they were cunning. (19)
  • Let Palsy and Cunning go to form a word. (10)
  • I fly from his cunning as much as from anything. (10)
  • And a flash of cunning zigzagged across his brain. (8)
  • In that sound he had the key Of his cunning malady. (10)
  • Her veins throbbed; her whole soul was alive with cunning. (8)
  • Shall I use cunning or force to make you suffer punishment? (12)
  • There is always something offensive in the details of cunning. (4)
  • The cunning displayed by Arnold was portrayed in these documents. (18)
  • And he was as cunning fronting odds, and a thunderbolt at the charge. (10)
  • With cunning glee he takes the silver box and purse and pockets them.] (8)
  • The loftiest harangue would not have been so cunning to touch their wits. (10)
  • He feigned stupidity and sullenness, rage and cunning, in quick succession. (10)
  • I proved her false; but her devilish cunning deceived every other man in the world. (10)
  • The veteran of the fields responded with a grin, designed to show a lively cunning. (10)
  • The veteran of the fields responded with a grin, designed to show a lively cunning. (22)
  • She examined the cunning touches of colouring matter here and there in her front hair. (8)
  • Her soft, deer-like eyes were full of expectation and delight and just a shade of cunning. (12)
  • Furthermore, said her incandescent reason, she had not suspected such art of cunning in Willoughby. (10)
  • He might well say, as he once did, that there are hours when the clearest soul becomes a cunning fox. (10)
  • A very cunning postscript to the telegram brought Braintop almost as quick to her as a return message. (10)
  • She was growing a little suspicious, but this cunning touch of lover-like interest dispersed the shade. (10)
  • The expressions of their faces, if one bends down into the dusk, are sweeter and more cunning than ever. (8)
  • They gazed on it, saw themselves in it, and veiled it: warned of the cunning of an oft-defeated Tempter. (10)
  • Fanny, Fanny, I see you smile and look cunning, but, upon my honour, I never bribed a physician in my life. (4)
  • With this I took her arm gaily, walked with her, and had nearly overreached myself with excess of cunning. (10)
  • She could have accused Vernon of a treacherous cunning for imposing it on her free will to decide her fate. (10)
  • The ladies were astonished at the extent of the vessel, and its luxurious fittings and cunning arrangements. (10)
  • The scene of the prank was not in itself so bad as the stuff which a cunning anecdotist could make out of it. (10)
  • Letitia, sitting opposite him with a closed book in her hand, watched him with delicate and cunning attention. (12)
  • Then, again, as gentle-folks had good experience of, the young ones in London were twice as cunning as the old. (10)
  • While he was fielding against the opposite eleven, the tramp came into the booth, and we had a match of cunning. (10)
  • She is going to wear a wreath of black briony (preserved and set by Miss Ford, a person cunning in these matters). (10)
  • Even the baronet smiled at so cunning a distinction as that involved in swearing a thing, and not swearing it upon oath. (10)
  • The heart works the springs of imagination; imagination received its commission from the heart, and was a cunning artist. (10)
  • It brings with it a faint, floating haze, a cunning decolouriser, although not thick enough to obscure outlines near at hand. (2)
  • Wait, and we shall forge him curbs, Put his fangs to uses, tame, Teach him, quick as cunning herbs, How to cure him sick and lame. (10)
  • He fixed March with his little eyes, which had a curious innocence in their cunning, and tapped the desk immediately in front of him. (9)
  • She had innumerable tricks of indication in these shifty pretty ways of hers, and was full of varying speech to the cunning reader of her. (10)
  • It was a masterpiece of audacious dramatic musical genius addressed with sagacious cunning and courage to the sympathizing audience present. (10)
  • The experts in criminology assert that precisely this mixture of the cunning and the brutal is characteristic of such types and such crimes. (12)
  • It may be creditable to you that your cunning is not the cunning of the serpent; to us it would be more valuable if it were. (10)
  • But he had a certain low cunning, which had defeated many ailments, and his reputation for assisting people into the world stood extremely high. (8)
  • Her nature and fate had reached a peak of life and exercised an assured magic from which, in innocent cunning, she wrung all possible advantages. (12)
  • They are very cunning brewers and sagacious buyers too; their maxims show them to direct all their acuteness upon obtaining quality for their money. (10)
  • And possibly at the present moment applying, with her cunning hand, the cosmetics and powders he could excuse for a concealment of the traces of grief. (10)
  • Mrs. Chump herself primed him with Sherry, thinking in the cunning of her heart that it might haply help the inspiration derived from his devotional exercise. (10)
  • Thou findest a pugilist countering quick, Cunning at drives where thy shutters are barred; Not, after the studied professional trick, Blue-sealing; she brightens the sight. (10)

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Definition of cunning:

  • cunning, kun’ing, adj. knowing: skilful: artful: crafty. | n. knowledge: skill: faculty of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose: artifice. | adv. cunn’ingly. | n. cunn’ingness, quality of being cunning: artfulness, slyness. (0)

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