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.

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Cunning Quotations

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

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

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg

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

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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