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Definition of Cunning |
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Cunning
Knowing; skillful; dexterous. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft. Related Definitions: Accomplish, Act, Art, Artful, As, Boy, Craft, Crafty, Cunning, Curious, Deceit, Deceitful, Designing, Dexterity, Dexterous, Exhibiting, Faculty, Fraudulent, Ingenious, Ingenuity, Knowing, Knowledge, Little, Of, Or, Pleasing, Pretty, Purpose, Skill, Skillful, Sly, Stratagem, The, To, Using, With, Work, Wrought |
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Cunning Quotations
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. George W. Bush |
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Cunning Translations
cunning in Afrikaans is slim cunning in Dutch is slim, doortrapt, gewiekst, listig cunning in Finnish is viekas cunning in German is schlau, listig cunning in Latin is dolosus, astus cunning in Norwegian is utspekulert cunning in Swedish is underfundig, slug, illmarig, knepig, list, listig |
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