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Defenition of the word cunning

    • Defenition of the word cunning

      • Intelligent, smart and capable of taking advantage of a situation.
      • The quality of being clever.
      • showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success""; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
      • shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
      • marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
      • drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
      • shrewdness in deception; "as cunning as a fox"
      • attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby"
      • showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
      • marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney"
      • crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
      • showing inventiveness and skill
      • marked by skill in deception
      • attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

    Synonyms for the word cunning

      • clever
      • craft
      • craftiness
      • crafty
      • cute
      • dodgy
      • foxiness
      • foxy
      • guile
      • guileful
      • ingenious
      • knavish
      • slick
      • sly
      • slyness
      • tricksy
      • tricky
      • wiliness
      • wily

    Similar words in the cunning

      • adroit
      • artful
      • attractive

    Hypernyms for the word cunning

      • artfulness
      • astuteness
      • perspicaciousness
      • perspicacity
      • shrewdness

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