Marked by skill in deception.
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Examples for "cunning"
Examples for "cunning"
1This demands quite a bit of hard work, not to say cunning.
2Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3There was no cunning in the speech: it was the simple truth.
4Money and power and privilege run the Beautiful Game - and cunning.
5Though cunning in many ways, the opossum is singularly simple in others.
1She responded: This is a tricky question that isn't easy to answer.
2It may look tricky, but chopsticks are really quite easy to use.
3Ah, of course: tricky Alden, getting, as usual, exactly what he wanted.
4However, NHS reform makes it an especially tricky time to tackle differences.
5Certainly, overactive autoimmune response can be a tricky business, among other challenges.
1But we're very taken with these slick new cases from Pong Ireland.
2In many cases, the slick compounded factors that already threatened the environment.
3A slick Wexford side claimed victory in blustery conditions at Birr yesterday.
4The cold was expected to last another day, keeping road surfaces slick.
5The community centre building is slick, marked with patches of the past.
1She must be the sly one, all right, with that innocent look.
2Like you. A sly look my way, as if expecting a response.
3The sly approaches, the astute negotiations, the lying and the circumventing .
4That maid said she bought it on the sly all the time.
5But I will remember him for his sly, cheeky sense of humour.
1The crafty antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
2But the crafty Menapian foresaw and prevented the severity of the emperor.
3The crafty fellow made the sign of the cross and hurried home.
4The advantage of the plan was instantly grasped by the crafty Apache.
5Silent, too; the struggle was silent and insidious and crafty as death.
1Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.
2In a sense Congress only replaced one wily political operator with another.
3It was merely display; the wily Boer did not yet mean business.
4Karl wears his heart upon his sleeve; Franz is wily and hypocritical.
5The wily bishop set to work, and the consequences were soon visible.
1When will banks learn that dodgy tax practices actually cost them dear?
2The Free State is a flipping dodgy place to do business, folks.
3However, those sweets have plenty of dodgy E numbers, environmental and economic.
4The same link on the dodgy website doesn't offer as much help.
5I'm happy you know your people have dodgy, illegal and stole money.
1This might have been originally designed to prevent disputes or knavish impositions.
2Mistaken they may be; but why yell them down as knavish blasphemers?
3The knavish fanatic closed his eyes and raised his face heavenwards.
4Surely, sir, it cannot be right to take advantage of such knavish tricks.
5Neither were they filled with goods, like those of knavish traders.
1As Gollum had once said about Frodo Baggins, it was tricksy, precious.
2Her smile was the tricksy play of moonlight among clouds of faëry.
3Special features are tricksy and precious; Sméagol steals the rest of the show.
4Mab is a tricksy bitch, but she's good to her word.
5But what could he expect from such a tricksy sprite of a girl?
1The profound sagacity of Gloucester's guileful counsel was then unanimously recognized.
2The people of Antioch like making a noise, and they are guileful flatterers.
3So much for my guileful attempt to bypass his defenses.
4Both employ guileless heroes, set loose in a guileful world.
5He had been soundly schooled by his guileful Sicilian mother.
1The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always foxy.
2But Professor Featherwit declined, his foxy face wrinkling in a bashful laugh.
3The scalp, with small exceptions is cohered with sorrel or foxy hair.
4Having Miles knocked off bothered me, and then you birds cracking foxy.
5He was too foxy to be driven back into that suspicious neighbourhood.
6He was impressive and capable looking but appeared too crafty, too foxy.
7All he's got is a teasing slow ball and a foxy head.
8But Dick was too foxy to begin by asking questions about me.
9He was accompanied by some other musicians and 2 foxy girl singers.
10I owe you nothing. His sly, foxy eyes darted sideways at me.
11Well, you're a foxy one, you are, if ever there was one.
12But even foxy investors have found the hunting grounds in world stocks difficult.
13The edges of the leaves are rather of a foxy tint.
14The Fox set out upon his search, in his foxy way.
15It's the brainy, foxy fellows that stay back in the camps.
16The foxy lawyer was more decided in his opinion than even the doctor.
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