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Sentence Examples Cunning plans, devious stratagems, state-of-the-art conventional forces, and legal and moral proscriptions, can all be helpful. Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival. It is the inspiration for the parish of St Aiden in Robertson Davies's novel The Cunning Man. Cunning folk send out thousands of these letters with their own name at the top of the list for a payout. Cunning ham will be teaching at the Humanities and Technology Institute, a branch of Orenburg State University, in the city of Orsk. But, for Homer, there is a calculated pun on words too, because his hero is a cunning schemer. Houdini relied on great skill, low cunning, and keeping tiny metal picklocks concealed about his person. The friend and I both have the same cunning plan, and liberate some of the cups for drinks. A zombified society, passively allowing itself to be hypnotised by every cunning conman with a used monster to sell. Far from a road to Damascus moment, the agreement was rather a modus vivendi by cunning, ruthless political operators. It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need. But in the end he lacked the sagacity or the low cunning to do the one thing necessary. Gabriel often relied more upon cunning and tactical exploitation than raw power which the others seemed to possess. Wrong is correct in emphasizing how Mobutu, the cunning Machiavellian prince, managed to acquire considerable outside help. Most of them, with Machiavellian cunning, were refusing to answer their telephones. My opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginners luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores. Getting a good start was imperative to finish in the top 10 and this meant some cunning seamanship around the start boat to ensure a clean start. We also tried formulating a cunning plan to discourage a girl who's after him and needs to know she's barking up the wrong tree. Indian men must shed their moral self-righteousness and acquire a practical sense, a manipulative, this-worldly cunning and aggressiveness. We think they are too thoughtless and laid-back, they think we are cunning and manipulative. Show More Sentences I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design. She was a cunning old besom and had seen instantly through Janet and my efforts to be professional and pleasant. But caution must be adopted that nobody underestimates the treacherousness, cunning, craftiness and the ruthlessness of the regime. It is only because of his cunning tricks that my mother agreed to help him. But this is simply a cunning trick to make you forget that you're over-paying for this protection! The most effective move known to womankind involves stimulating three erogenous zones with one cunning hand trick. With a few cunning camera tricks and makeup, he literally becomes a paralyzed man, both of body and of heart. So our concern is not to answer the relativist by some cunning intellectual or metaphysical trick. There is a very cunning trick to the site, but it took me some time to spot what it was. We cannot be exclusionary in our quest for recognition for our armor and cavalry troopers who are in harm's way against a cunning foe. They star as two of the kids in a cunning casting move designed to appeal to the tweenager crowd. In some scenes Bond brazens it out, fists flailing or guns blazing, to pick off the enemy, but most of the time greater cunning is needed. I think he is a man of limited intelligence, considerable low cunning, self-esteem born of blinkered privilege and a mean spirit. He acquired a reputation for being bloodthirsty and ruthless, to go with his reputation for cunning. Azmoth the Clever, a master at leadership and full of cunning, was the scouting and skirmishing army for the One. Come next year these unexceptional throwbacks might have mutated into cunning reinventors. Anthony, while fully deserving his Man Of The Match award, could do with some of his Roman namesake's cunning. Indian netizens faced with the ban would have to resort to cunning methods to circumvent the block. I'm worried that it's just another covert and cunning way for Labour to try and neuter other parties. His cunning, speed, condition, and endurance can tax the physique and patience of his pursuers to the utmost. Show More Sentences Nevertheless, we should at least expect some caprice or cunning from our thieves. Do not play games with me, lovely, for my ferocious wit and cunning is sure to cut you to pieces! The cunning sniper up on the hill in the first mission certainly had my number. I hereby make a vow, not to cheat, but to win quizzes here on in on my wit and intelligence alone, forbearing all use of my fox-like cunning. But increasingly it seems that there is no plan of any kind, cunning or otherwise. I feared her cunning, her strength, the way she could manipulate me like clay in ceramics class. You have to react to the opponent's move, try to outguess his next move, and surprise him with a cunning countering action. More than once he bailed his master out of dangerous situation not by using force, but cunning tricks. But the serpent was as subtle and cunning as ever, more than any other beast who dwelt within the garden which the Gods had made. His expression smoothly dispensed of his surprise and assumed a look of cunning which Em didn't like overmuch. Use all of your skill and cunning to beat your opponents in a breathtaking game of Cheat! The Germans, being as cunning and devious as they are known to be, soon developed the 9mm Parabellum for their Luger military pistol. Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system. Australia had native predators of its own, but foxes hunt in a different and more cunning way and have a broad and adaptable diet. It was not evil, but cunning and cold, and Jaro new, with ice-cold certainty, that if he saw it in the eye, his soul would be shattered. He thought me a child, a helpless, useless creature, incapable of cunning and deception of any breed. The catalyst for the plot and exploration of these ideas is a cunning plan one of the trio comes up with. Imaginative and cunning, his dark visions are compulsively watchable, if not exactly pleasant. They lazily, but with intense, concentrated cunning, manipulate the lives of those around them for their own ends. Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France. Show More Sentences From Wingate, Dayan learned the importance of surprise, cunning, compassion and the instillation of fear. We reckon it's nothing more than a cunning ploy to get more stuff written about the band. My opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginner's luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores. The truth is, though, sometimes spies really do resort to cunning disguises and hidden cameras. Now, even if these are just sneaky sites by cunning marketers, they're working. The lies he fed me to achieve this were cunning and elaborate, and indeed, I was fooled. Observations suggest they try a cunning psychological ploy to prevent their partner fleeing the nest. Fortunately, in an effort to cheer myself up, I've devised a fiendish and cunning plan to turn myself into a local celebrity. He subsequently discovers the whereabouts of the photograph by a cunning ruse. Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware. Tom however, through cunning reasoning skills, is able to get what he needs. It's a cunning skill, even more so as you can reverse the stroke in order to go backwards. A little cunning skill is obviously useful, and luck is a vital ingredient that I like to enjoy in large measure. Today's aggressor is cunning, ingenious, pragmatic, and at the same time not limited by any moral constraints. This year the ingenious Councillor has thought up a cunning plan that will see the town's streets swept clean of dog dirt. That's right, not only is it my birthday today but by a piece of cunning design today is also the day we complete on our new home. He is a very ingenious and cunning writer and it's fun to see him skewer the targets he aims for with acerbic wit and intelligence. If they had any skills other than devious animal cunning, they would have looked closer at the boy. This was their big chance, so why not employ a bit of cunning to achieve it? Imagine the tenacity, the motor skills, the sheer reptile cunning involved. Show More Sentences She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash. She showed no weakness, instead attaining her goals through cunning, skill, and brutality. They will send hunters to trap me or bring me down, but all will fall to my clever traps and animal cunning. Only with the cunning of the fox can you extricate yourself from these grim precincts. On the other hand, no computer could match human cunning, which was different from mere intelligence. Perhaps you will forgive me replying to the contention that animal cunning will be overtaken by human ingenuity. The monk's legendary alter ego was a rebel against his feudal leaders, fighting with supernatural strength, cunning, and skills. His pale blue eyes, sparkling with intelligence and cunning, caught my gaze and held it steadily. She easily captures this grasping floozy, with just a curl of her bee-stung lips and her eyes alternately vacant and cunning. This results in a personality which is cunning and devious, and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for itself. They can be cunning and devious, but overall goblins are not very intelligent creatures. The couple are full of praise for the courageous cat who has all the cunning of a guard dog. The London Underground system finds ever more cunning ways to make itself disagreeable to the sorry traveller. Either way, it would clearly take all of the cunning and guile of an evil criminal mastermind to penetrate such online defences. They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy. As always, the key to success in this business lies in the cunning use of guile. Being able to think and reason the survival of the fittest wasn't just down to strength but also wits, guile and cunning. Both efforts seem like cunning attempts to fob off used goods on a gullible reading public. Genetic endowments may be responsible for native intelligence, tenacity, cunning and will. Those who excel in this struggle distinguish themselves through nothing more exotic than boundless cunning and ruthlessness. Show More Sentences Both are cunning predators that can evade any attempts of capture or extinction. You'll dislike this show while watching it, but an hour later you'll be dumbfounded by its cunning. To bring us exclusives, documentary film-makers, like journalists, depend on a mixture of luck and cunning. Emerald was a cunning, quick, but brutal girl with a temper as bad as tempers come. His stupidity served his turn on this occasion better than cunning would have done. These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild. I'd lined up other discs just in case it, in fact, turned out to be Scandinavian doom metal or a cunning front for an area smooth jazz combo. Those raised in urban Western understanding of the psychology of the animal kingdom tend to view the fox as a cunning, sly, deceitful animal. Diplomacy as a game values the sly, the cunning, the underhanded, the crafty. She was a rather cunning and sly teenager by nature, accented by her narrow brown eyes and usual smirk. It was obviously a cunning ploy to secure column inches for a particular company. The Geordies love him, opponents loathe him but he's crafty, cunning and still top class. He pieces together the history behind the crafty tricks and cunning plans of conflict. There they have been disguised in many cunning ways, for example inside garden sheds. His portrayal of the cruelly cunning main character is what ultimately drives the film. He is full of charm when he gets his way, full of menace when he does not, unscrupulous, cunning and deceitful. First, it has to be said that the game scenario is a very cunning one, cleverly designed to lead the unsuspecting player astray. She's a cunning manipulator one moment, an adorably guileless charmer the next, one who tosses off winsome smiles like strike-zone fastballs. He was supposedly a cunning manipulator who lured his adversary into a fatal trap. The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust. Show More Sentences These are two young bucks full of guile and cunning, mobile and versatile in the modern fashion and eager to wreak havoc with Dutch organisation. The audience is tempted to appropriate the position within the play it believes possesses the most cunning and insight into the play itself. Rommel was supposed to have gained victory over the British through his superior military skills and cunning. She loathes cunningness, and thinks a cunning person is definitely dishonest. His eyes showed an intelligence and cunning totally at odds with his grandfatherly appearance. After all, when it comes to cunning stunts, we may have a natural advantage. She looked so cunning with her dark green cloak setting off her green eyes. Oh well what a cunning plan and who do you think that it is that unintentionally ruins the plan for him? His face has a slightly rakish quality to it, his eyes gleaming with charm, and cunning. Akin to an artist to his canvas, he plays with an adroit cunning that is matchless to his peers. I rather think he was hoping to be able to foil their wicked searches with cunning legal hacks and so on. I had no idea such cunning and wily interrogation techniques were still permitted in the Western world. Similarly, representations of the loyal house slave contrasted with representations of the field slaves as cunning and rebellious. However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club. We loosed off a few shots at the various damaged crockery I had scavenged and then I thought I would try a cunning scheme. The sheep are cunning and will not be worked by sheep dogs, loppies, leathernecks or rouseabouts. The Liberal Party has always been a mix of idealism, pragmatism, opportunism and low cunning. He was the personification of the kind of low cunning to which Nixon himself aspired but could never quite achieve. Unfortunately, the laptop didn't fall for their cunning ruse. Police say he was manipulative, dishonest, cunning and intimidating. Show More Sentences Although good ethics exist in the profession of law, nevertheless the profession is not without the unscrupulous cunning, and designing fellow members. Her early work gave way to more chilling visions that echoed fairy tale evils, sinister forests, cunning wolves, and grandmothers ready to eat you. What remains is a traditional case of a national paranoia being manipulated by a cunning business establishment to protect its entrenched interests. Cleopatra Thea of Syria was reputed to be far more beautiful and cunning than Cleopatra VII, yet she is always overlooked in favour of her descendant! All it takes is a preternatural sense of musical trends and history, a cunning knack for timing, and the willingness to completely reinvent yourself. And while the common law judges, with the prestige, wealth and cunning of the national government behind them, were ascendant forces, they had to tread rather softly. One can only presume, therefore, that all the tactical blunders and propaganda goofs which have characterised events so far were all part of this cunning plan to begin with. And to survive you have to negotiate it with all the cunning of a fox. But the longer the half wore on the sense a tad more craft, guile or cunning was needed to break through the formidable and sizeable Shrewsbury defence grew and grew. Ider, upon learning of the threat of Kerridac's army, sealed his men into his fortress, which cunning construction and placement of manpower then made nearly unbreachable. Switching up sexual orientation is a cunning way of compensating for flagging sales and aging characters. Police hunting cunning car thieves who use fishing poles and hooks to get their hands on the keys to high powered cars have made a series of arrests. The association of the fox with the devil through shared vices is carried forward to cumulate in the portrayal of the Jesuit as a devilish, vicious and cunning character. The first embraces trickery and cunning, the second embraces manipulation and deception, with no lie being too great, no friendship not worth betraying. At all levels, cunning teachers allied with overbearing students. But can the governments really have been to blame for inducing irrational exuberance in the bidders through the fiendishly cunning auction processes they devised? But Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary. He's otherwise dull, demonstrating few signs of intelligence or cunning. Reluctant to muzzle her guest directly, Ross hatched a cunning plan. The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality. Show More Sentences The Dead Dog was back, only this one barked and yapped for an hour as it tried and failed to make the cunning old bull make a mistake and stray into the stunning pen. Of course, there is the catch that Nancy has always been a bit more cunning and self-centered than Piper. This involves cunning compression strategies that throw out inessential data and crams the essentials onto tape using a head that rotates at 9000 rpm. There are the capricious gusts of sea wind that sweep in unsuspectingly, the cunning bunkers, the enigmatic kicks and bounces, the blatantly tormenting results. This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing. Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning. The latter confronts Wilde with the logic and cunning of his profession. In the coal-fired kitchen, you'll learn the cunning ways that mothers bulked out mince pies with apple and carrot, and baked Christmas cakes in the shape of Anderson shelters. You've been tricked, the defamation of this cunning flower tricked you. History is replete with instances of misguided leaders believing they were statesmen and entering into parleys and talks with intractable and cunning enemies. Thus far, she had failed to show him either skill or cunning. What he may lack in finesse or cunning, he makes up for in raw firepower. Even though she doesn't invent what she does, she has the cunning and intelligence to pick up on other people's style so immediately that it's like she thought of it. Here he personifies folk cunning, good humour and common sense. Still, spacey endows Frank with a reptilian intelligence, a cunning that gives him an edge over everyone he encounters. As the sigil of House Tyrell is a rose, the sobriquet is a play on her cunning and prickliness. Even more cunning, some of the gorillas pretend to be tranquilized. Pleasure turns to horror when the realize that they have walked into a cunning trap, where the harder they try to run, the worse their predicament. And he makes me think, well, this is one of the ways in which conservatives are cleverer and more cunning than liberals. Ray was oblivious to my cunning and sly plan, and I kept it that way. Show More Sentences Twelve years he saw the savage tribes take both French and English bribes, and he found within them, dwelt a Lion's heart, The Fox's cunning and the Serpent's Dart. And it is, say those familiar with previous inspections, a plodding, unglamorous business involving diplomacy, boring leg work, cunning and much analysis. The directness of the message, which is somewhat bluntly conveyed, is a somewhat disappointing end to an extraordinary novel that is full of subtlety and cunning. Portrayed as having a good degree of street smarts, cunning Carver seems to have played along in the interest of getting ahead. I listened intently, for he was right, his plans were very cunning. Its surprisingly short length is a cunning trick, since this tantalizing opening leaves you sitting on the edge of your seat wanting to hear a few more snippets. His methods are crafty and cunning, he is the master deceiver. What was important, Jordan told Irons, was to convey the man's cunning intelligence and steely resolve. But he is, looming large as a shrimpy, gimpy psycho with oversize plans and the cunning to execute them. Witchcraft needs to be distinguished from sorcery and the white magic of the cunning folk. Once, the author used to share her office with a cunning woman who used to cover the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kittens. In Cromwellian England, Nell is the granddaughter of the village healing woman, called a cunning woman. SadieKing is a sexy, powerful and cunning woman who kno ws what she wants and makes sure she gets it,'' saidaspokeswoman for the ITV soap. This is where you can outsmart the regime with cunning patience. This could explain why psychopathic individuals can be callous and socially cunning at the same time. But not, gentle and couth reader, merely a cunning old hack's device to grab your attention. Read it twice, and you'll discover that Langer, unlike his unworldly protagonist, is a subtly cunning foreshadower of plot and theme. I always suspected he was being wound up to do something for 'racing's benefit' by more cunning folk who kept a lower profile. A cunning machine politician and businessman, who had never even attended any protest of that kind. So fruity has connotations of sweetness, liquid of runniness, and courageous, apparently, of cunning. Show More Sentences He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning. If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. An obvious choice to endorse ChapStick, Mr. Smith knows that ladies love a cunning linguist and a moist mouth. And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment. There are yet one or two instances of this cunning latrociny which occurs to us as too rich not be noted. To a lesser extent, Wicca also drew upon folk magic and the practices of cunning folk. In England, the provision of this curative magic was the job of a witch doctor, also known as a cunning man, white witch, or wise man. Operating out of Jamaica, he carried on a war against Spanish interests in the region, often using cunning tactics. These developed the character of the stage Scot, often a clown, but cunning and loyal. The cunning Fox is commonly found in Native American mythology, where it is portrayed as an almost constant companion to Coyote. Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate. Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian-born surgeon, has been credited with bringing tactical and organisational cunning to al-Qaida. Brilliantly, the toilet wasn't actually fixed to the floor, like some kind of cunning booby-trap for the weary contortionist defecator. Perhaps this isn't a cunning strategy, but the failure to form one. Even my Judy, a snuggly little snoozer of a cat, could be quite cunning when confronted with a carrier and a trip to the vet. Plus getting supermarkets to reduce their cunning ploys to sell high-fat and high mark-up products like sweets at the till. Locating the center of mass at the optical center with the requisite accuracy, however, involves both care and experimental cunning. The Anansi is a wily, multifaced creature who survives by trickery and cunning, alternately infuriating and tickling his followers. Show More Sentences Yermak is typically described as brutal, cunning, and daring. Full of cunning folk with a thirst for the dark arts, Slytherin are bitter foes of Harry's house, Gryffindor, who are renowned for their daring and bravery. American red foxes tend to be larger than European forms, but according to foxhunters' accounts, they have less cunning, vigour and endurance in the chase than European foxes. She is a very cunning woman and she knows exactly what she is doing. Here is a little country girl that is very cunning, that makes her use of being young and unbred, and outdoes the ensnarers, who are almost twice her age. Mad and fantastic execution, Engaging and redeeming of himself With such a careless force and forceless care As if that luck, in very sport of cunning, Bade him win all. Bold and bolshie, brash, cunning and cautious Whilst craftily creeping on bloated belly to the raucous Blackbird greedily feeding on the worm-holed lawn. Compared with the paparazzi of today, who ignore the underclass even as they cater to it, his work represents an authentic, cunning view from beneath. But can the agents outsmart a cunning and mean-spirited murderer? Maldor may been the least powerful of Zokar's apprentices, but he possesses a cunning intellect, and in a wizardless world his abilities were suddenly formidable. Examples from Classical Literature Cunning old dog is Pearson, as cute and as greedy as a Rio shark. Cunning hints inviting confidence she rebuffed with violence. She falls easily when the cunning Jean tempts her at the psychologic moment. Furniture of ivory, of ebony and lemonwood, preciously inlaid, gave to the place an air of cunning confusion. There is no more cunning or treacherous a varmint than a true-bred red-skin. The talk went on, and the peasants from Podolsk told him that it required a great deal of cunning to steal a horse on an estate. Now, at last, he had no cunning, and he was hazily conscious of his ineffectiveness. Despite this, the Americans are hard-fisted, shrewd, and as a nation a match for any in the field of cunning. This was no other than Thomas Craig, to whose malignity and cunning all her misfortunes were imputable. Then, for the first time in six weeks, I see that the ironside is cunning in thought. At that time the cunning mischief-maker, Loki, was still living with the Asa-folk. It produces a conservative, untruthful, cunning, and non-progressive people. In their wild state they are the wariest and most cunning of all the denizens of the forest. He has neither the cunning nor the ambition to establish the plutonic empire with it. There was no cunning about the fellow, and I fancy that in dogdom he was reckoned something of a fool. You can hardly find them by day, for they are cunning and secrete themselves. There is a high-grade imbecile that is cunning and shrewd, but he has no will, and he is a criminal. The fox is the synonym of cunning, and will often outwit the shrewdest trapper. He was circling on the trail of the stallion, with cunning intent of ambush. And then the cunning stroke of implying that her sister was not indisposed to listen to me. Show More Sentences Their tactics were the result of untutored cunning, rather than intelligent design. Thus, though generally esteemed an able diplomatist, he had the cunning of the intriguant, and not the providence of a statesman. Don Marquis has something of dobsonian cunning to set his musings to delicate, austere music. The latter was often a cunning worker, but the British tunneller could always be relied on to beat him for pace. This was no tricky old cow pony, but a natively vicious, powerful, and cunning young horse. Kamba Tsenam thus revealed himself as a cunning rogue, who had not the slightest respect for the authorities of Saka. The premeditated human contrivance of the nose-ring was too cunning for impulsive brute force, and the creature flinched. The odd-job man, congratulating himself on extraordinary cunning, bent forward and essayed a kiss of welcome. His companions, not being so cunning as he, and knowing they could outwalk him, readily consented to this arrangement. And now she was following along a track, pioneered by a clever and cunning leader. The bears came next, horrid cunning white things, and turning in their toes like that does give them such a frumpish look. His method would be cunning and crafty, and it would be done with a lot of showmanship. The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see the mischief which her magic arts had since brought upon the gormandizers. This bird is as large as the gyrfalcon, but, although equal in cunning and address, is possessed of less courage. Their very cunning is what whets our appetites, and I absolutely burned to embrace the dauntless leader of the gang. But Reuters tired arm had lost its cunning and, try as he would, he could not get the ball over the plate. You can't hope to slink past a cunning, wide-awake, evil brute like he was. Only a new ferryboat, and yet in its fitness comparable with the prettiest product of Nature's cunning, and rivaling it. He grew cunning and hypocritical, and could do nothing that was not false in reality or appearance. A cunning criminal is the spotted fever germ, and he has not yet been quite fully identified and convicted. Show More Sentences He is a divine legislator, cunning in runic lore, and the creator of mankind. By this cunning device, in their rustical eyes, Its tinkle soon passed for a bell of great size. They will have smiled at his childish tempers, applauded his snakelike cunning, and laughed outright at his heathen superstitions. Then, a gleam of resolve or cunning came into his face, and the next instant he was at his suavest. But Themistocles was not the man to be hoodwinked by the simple cunning of the Spartans. Its mind was wholly bent upon cunning knowledge, subtility, and getting together a multitude of earthly things. He is a little live lizard, called a horned frog, very cunning, who lives in a small box. I am master of a hundred arts, and have into the bargain a sackful of cunning. Style is not the art of writing melodious words or the craft or cunning of finding a way round the split infinitive. And help you, master sergeant, to bear this piece of the foul fiend's cunning devising. He thinks he has the cunning of all the animals, and that no one can outwit him. The Cockney voice suggested a mean, back-bent creature with bitten nails and cunning eyes, a Uriah Heep, cringing but sinister. It was inconceivable that it could be the practical and achievable cunning of military bullies and strategists. Or would the cunning of apeman, denizen of the jungle, warn him against any such? He turned it on mysell twa-three times, the cunning devil, trying to keek into me, to see if he could use me. The Samoyed shamans are, as a rule, the most intelligent and cunning of the whole race. He had the look of a man whose original rustic stolidity had been supercharged with cockney cunning. With atavic cunning he sat upon the outside and waited for the triumph of death. An air of grottoes, of stone embellishments, arbours, and cunning recesses shed itself over the landskip. Here Paddy was questioned why he considered the wren as cunning a baste as the fox. Show More Sentences You are a cunning one, captain, but I really think you are overcareful sometimes. Again Theodora and I watched for the pilferer, and captured the cunning creature in the act. The informant was a short, thick-set, bowlegged man, with features that had cunning stamped indelibly on every line. Among all those mortals who grew so wise that they learned the secrets of the gods, none was more cunning than Daedalus. He sometimes attacks openly, but usually does so secretively, with the cunning of the tiger, and kills and slaughters. Tranter, cunning and wary from years of fighting, knew that his chance had come. Is it a wonder that very soon we had the slouch of the gangrel and the cunning aspect of the thief? The wolverene, or glutton, carries off the palm for cunning from all the other animals. Masters may be more cunning than slaves, but cunningness is not an evidence of a high order of intellectual power. A ratlike face, with cruel cunning printed on it that had been on front pages and TV screens often, but never for pay. Find more words! 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