Synonyms for cunning
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kuhn-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌn ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for cunning Other synonyms for the word cunning
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
- 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
Antonyms for cunning
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