Synonyms for cunning

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuhn-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌn ɪŋ

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Définition of cunning

Origin : early 14c., "learned, skillful," present participle of cunnen "to know" (see can (v.1)). Sense of "skillfully deceitful" is probably late 14c. As a noun from c.1300. Related: Cunningly.

adj devious
adj imaginative

Example sentences :

I have watched them cover their tracks with a cunning more than vulpine.
Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams

Tranter, cunning and wary from years of fighting, knew that his chance had come.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

The thing was outrageous to him, and he set himself to match her cunning.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

But she is cunning in love's ways and dulls Shakespeare's resentment with "I don't hate you."
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

His next move proved that his cunning was of an exceptional order.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Their thieves are the most daring and their agents the most cunning.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

All the treaties he makes are forced from him by violence or cunning.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

The cunning Medea observed what was passing in the young man's mind.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Oh, do not be afraid for me," replied the priest with a cunning little smile.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

Magua had now attained one great object of all his cunning and enterprise.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

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