Cunning
['kʌnɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) crafty artfulness (especially in deception).
(adj.) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; 'a cute kid with pigtails'; 'a cute little apartment'; 'cunning kittens'; 'a cunning baby' .
Typist: Millie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
(a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
(a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
(a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
(a.) Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
(a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Editor: Tamara
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Crafty, artful, sly, astute, subtle, wily, shrewd, sharp, designing, intriguing, deceitful, TRICKY, crooked, diplomatic, Machiavelian.
n. Craft, art, shrewdness, artifice, deceit, duplicity, subtlety, intrigue.
Checked by Abram
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CRAFT]
Inputed by Jeff
Definition
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.
Inputed by Alex
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being cunning, denotes you will assume happy cheerfulness to retain the friendship of prosperous and gay people. If you are associating with cunning people, it warns you that deceit is being practised upon you in order to use your means for their own advancement.
Checker: Scott
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: 'The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses. '
Typist: Maura
Examples
- If a man of my cunning cannot circumvent this dull-headed— Cautious. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Her thoughtfulness baffled his cunning scrutiny. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I know I ain't as cunning as you are,' replied Charlotte; 'but don't put all the blame on me, and say I should have been locked up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my elbow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- After that proof of your horrible falseness and cunning, I tore up my letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- His very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- THAT was due to the folly of Robert, and the cunning of his wife; and it was earned by them before many months had passed away. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They're a deal too cunning to be found out. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Confusedly in response to that demand, bold men, wise men, shrewd and cunning men were arising to become magicians, priests, chiefs, and kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pip, said Mr. Jaggers, laying his hand upon my arm, and smiling openly, this man must be the most cunning impostor in all London. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With your usual happy mixture of cunning and audacity, you have got him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning: it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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