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What is the adjective for cunningness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb cun which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

cunning
  1. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
  2. (obsolete) Skillful, artful.
  3. (obsolete) Wrought with, or exibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
  4. (US, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Arthur and Dutch would devise a cunning ploy to rob the bank.”
      “Esau, the rugged outdoor type, occupied himself out in the fields and became a cunning hunter.”
cunninger
  1. comparative form of cunning: more cunning
  2. Examples:
    1. “He had always trusted Lucian for the cunninger insight and did it now though Lucian lay in the bishop's arms limp and senseless.”
cunningest
  1. superlative form of cunning: most cunning
  2. Examples:
    1. “The cunningest bit body o a player, I DAE think, that iver haunled cleek an putter.”
      “The cunningest hunter is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other.”
      “The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the Commonwealth.”
cunned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of cun
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