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Marked by skill in deception.
cunning
tricky
slick
crafty
wily
dodgy
foxy
knavish
tricksy
guileful
artful
Intelligent, smart and capable of taking advantage of a situation.
sharp
shrewd
astute
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Examples for "
cunning
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cunning
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slick
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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.
1
She responded: This is a
tricky
question that isn't easy to answer.
2
It may look
tricky
,
but chopsticks are really quite easy to use.
3
Ah, of course:
tricky
Alden, getting, as usual, exactly what he wanted.
4
However, NHS reform makes it an especially
tricky
time to tackle differences.
5
Certainly, overactive autoimmune response can be a
tricky
business, among other challenges.
1
But we're very taken with these
slick
new cases from Pong Ireland.
2
In many cases, the
slick
compounded factors that already threatened the environment.
3
A
slick
Wexford side claimed victory in blustery conditions at Birr yesterday.
4
The cold was expected to last another day, keeping road surfaces
slick
.
5
The community centre building is
slick
,
marked with patches of the past.
1
The
crafty
antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
2
But the
crafty
Menapian foresaw and prevented the severity of the emperor.
3
The
crafty
fellow made the sign of the cross and hurried home.
4
The advantage of the plan was instantly grasped by the
crafty
Apache.
5
Silent, too; the struggle was silent and insidious and
crafty
as death.
1
Even now we have no clear case against this very
wily
man.
2
In a sense Congress only replaced one
wily
political operator with another.
3
It was merely display; the
wily
Boer did not yet mean business.
4
Karl wears his heart upon his sleeve; Franz is
wily
and hypocritical.
5
The
wily
bishop set to work, and the consequences were soon visible.
1
When will banks learn that
dodgy
tax practices actually cost them dear?
2
The Free State is a flipping
dodgy
place to do business, folks.
3
However, those sweets have plenty of
dodgy
E numbers, environmental and economic.
4
The same link on the
dodgy
website doesn't offer as much help.
5
I'm happy you know your people have
dodgy
,
illegal and stole money.
1
The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always
foxy
.
2
But Professor Featherwit declined, his
foxy
face wrinkling in a bashful laugh.
3
The scalp, with small exceptions is cohered with sorrel or
foxy
hair.
4
Having Miles knocked off bothered me, and then you birds cracking
foxy
.
5
He was too
foxy
to be driven back into that suspicious neighbourhood.
1
This might have been originally designed to prevent disputes or
knavish
impositions.
2
Mistaken they may be; but why yell them down as
knavish
blasphemers?
3
The
knavish
fanatic closed his eyes and raised his face heavenwards.
4
Surely, sir, it cannot be right to take advantage of such
knavish
tricks.
5
Neither were they filled with goods, like those of
knavish
traders.
1
As Gollum had once said about Frodo Baggins, it was
tricksy
,
precious.
2
Her smile was the
tricksy
play of moonlight among clouds of faëry.
3
Special features are
tricksy
and precious; Sméagol steals the rest of the show.
4
Mab is a
tricksy
bitch, but she's good to her word.
5
But what could he expect from such a
tricksy
sprite of a girl?
1
The profound sagacity of Gloucester's
guileful
counsel was then unanimously recognized.
2
The people of Antioch like making a noise, and they are
guileful
flatterers.
3
So much for my
guileful
attempt to bypass his defenses.
4
Both employ guileless heroes, set loose in a
guileful
world.
5
He had been soundly schooled by his
guileful
Sicilian mother.
1
She must be the
sly
one, all right, with that innocent look.
2
Like you. A
sly
look my way, as if expecting a response.
3
The
sly
approaches, the astute negotiations, the lying and the circumventing .
4
That maid said she bought it on the
sly
all the time.
5
But I will remember him for his
sly
,
cheeky sense of humour.
6
She turned her head and gave a
sly
peep at Aunt Clara.
7
He laughed dryly and said, with a
sly
gleam in his eyes:
8
I think sometimes he runs away and does it on the
sly
.
9
And he smiled in a
sly
self-satisfied way at his pious pun.
10
Indians are
sly
,
and the Sioux are the slyest of them all.
11
He watched her on the
sly
as she moved about the room.
12
His game is all dinks and slices and
sly
changes of pace.
13
Jax made his own way, and he grew up clever and
sly
.
14
Madame might give us the guillotine, he said with a
sly
smile.
15
Sometimes it is a sword, which he twirls vigorously in
sly
corners.
16
Indeed, the veteran actor nearly steals the evening with his
sly
underplaying.
sly
·
sly smile
sly glance
sly one
very sly
sly wink