Cunningly
['kʌniŋli]
Definition
(adv.) in an attractive manner; 'how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure'.
Checker: Myrna--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a cunning manner; with cunning.
Edited by Kitty
Examples
- Spect they was, said the child, scanning Miss Ophelia cunningly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Her presence filled him with keenness and excitement, he gravitated cunningly towards her, as if she had some unseen force of attraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No, no, no, sir, remonstrates Grandfather Smallweed, cunningly rubbing his spare legs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the next morning Glumdalclitch, my little nurse, told me the whole matter, which she had cunningly picked out from her mother. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Nobody would smell the tobacco, he thought, if he cunningly opened the window and kept his head and pipe in the fresh air. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You may tell me he cunningly did that to divert suspicion from himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There IS a way, commander, says Phil, looking cunningly at him, of settling this. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It got into shadows on the road, and lay cunningly on its back to trip him up. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Edited by Kitty