CUNNING in a Sentence
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113 example sentences for CUNNING, such as:
1. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
2. This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage.
3. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.
4. But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.
5. The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and artifice were often more effective than military might.
2. This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage.
3. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.
4. But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.
5. The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and artifice were often more effective than military might.
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Meanings and Examples of CUNNING
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cunning
n. crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
n. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1 That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.
2 But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.
3 "I don't like to say," and Rhett shot a look of drunken cunning at Melanie.
4 Perhaps it was not, Lily reflected; but it should be soon, unless she had lost her cunning.
5 You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns.
6 "You're a cunning thing," he offered, patting the back of her shoulder in an exploratory manner.
7 Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
8 Whereupon Stubb quickly pulled to the floating body, and hailing the Pequod to give notice of his intentions, at once proceeded to reap the fruit of his unrighteous cunning.
9 But one night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything.
10 Everywhere in the country tonight the old party politicians are studying this vote, and setting their sails by it; and nowhere will they be quicker or more cunning than here in our own city.
11 "Such cunning is not without its deviltry," exclaimed Hawkeye, when he met the disappointed looks of his assistants.
12 The sticks were removed, and the stones lifted; for Indian cunning was known frequently to adopt these objects as covers, laboring with the utmost patience and industry, to conceal each footstep as they proceeded.
13 The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
14 This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage.
15 The cunning ones are jealous," said the Huron; "I go.
Example Sentence:
1 I told him I knew nothing of him myself; I had heard him characterized as a cunning man.
2 His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.
3 The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and artifice were often more effective than military might.
4 However, never under-estimate the capacity for guile of a truly cunning and determined terrorist.