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Skillful and clever at getting what one wants.

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Usage examples (35)
  • "Well, then, I will be as plain as ever I can be, only premising that what you call the cunning of the serpent --"
  • Lots more dogs in cunning costumes at Made in Mundo
  • Well I doubt his low reptilian cunning is inadequate to that task but lets pretend.
  • I told him I knew nothing of him myself; I had heard him characterized as a cunning man.
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