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Meanings of cunning in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "craft"
Examples for "craft"
1
A general purpose military small craft capable of lifting approximately 100 personnel.
2
It's a great new platform that I can use for my craft.
3
With an 11 per cent increase, craft workers were the largest beneficiaries.
4
Some comics take weeks, months or even years to craft their set.
5
Letvin said the NIST would work with experts to craft stronger standards.
1
So he took the serpent for the workshop of his own guile.
2
There was no guile, no malevolence in the working of the city.
3
It was incapable of guile, and perhaps that gave him an advantage.
4
Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile, Psal.
5
Between them they resolved to take the place by strategy and guile.
1
It became the slyness of the watching animal, that feels the enemy.
2
He said this without malice or slyness or any emotion at all.
3
And Lecacheur replied, with a look of Normandy slyness in his eyes:
4
There was more slyness in it than ever his beard could hide.
5
Beauchamp was not insensible to the slyness of the poke at him.
1
For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
2
His craftiness almost redeemed a fetid Ajax front-line -but not quite.
3
Objection 1: It would seem that craftiness is not a special sin.
4
Objection 1: It would seem that fraud does not pertain to craftiness.
5
The invaders had planned with a craftiness and patience that deserved success.
1
Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own.
2
The Chancellor is sometimes compared with Brown in his tactical wiliness.
3
The job requires a rare combination of cultural nous, managerial capacity and bureaucratic wiliness.
4
No intrigue, no subterfuge, none of that wiliness that makes us love you so?
5
In Genesis it is the serpent who tempts Eve, in virtue of his natural wiliness.
1
Some of the foxiness must be taken out of it.
2
W. C. Barry, of Rochester, spoke highly of the Niagara, and its slight foxiness would be no objection to those who like that peculiarity.
3
Plus, everyone in the cast (which also includes Alicia Vikander) wears foxy clothes, gives foxy glances, and just luxuriates in the movie's general foxiness.
Usage of cunning in inglês
1
This demands quite a bit of hard work, not to say cunning.
2
Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3
There was no cunning in the speech: it was the simple truth.
4
Money and power and privilege run the Beautiful Game - and cunning.
5
Though cunning in many ways, the opossum is singularly simple in others.
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Except this time, Navratilova had carefully devised a cunning plan: all-out attack.
7
The cunning slob had been watching the main entrance, just in case.
8
I wonder whether Chelsea might need a bit more cunning and craft.
9
At last she spied the most dangerous and cunning animal, fast asleep.
10
The crafty antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
11
Rockdogs were cunning and dangerous, one of the most dangerous of adversaries.
12
I am cunning, ruthless, and tall; in the end, I rule all.
13
But he got them positioned in the end-withgreat cunning, he thought.
14
The instrument is very valuable; and he looked more cunning than ever.
15
The Odyssey is an object lesson in the power of human cunning.
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Women credit men with craft and cunning in the ways of love.
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Cunning across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common