cunningness

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Both “Squid Game” and the reality competition series “Squid Game: The Challenge,” which premiered Nov. 22, pushed contestants to the brink, testing their mental strength and cunningness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

Baby Peggy's public is composed of persons with an unbounded capacity for "cunningness" in other people's children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Masters may be more cunning than slaves, but cunningness is not an evidence of a high order of intellectual power.

From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by Brown, William Montgomery

Esther well knew the stubbornness of which she was capable upon this one question, and the cunningness of it was like her.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Though she continued to pit her wits against the secret cunningness of the dreaded old man, Soosie was often preoccupied, seeming to regard herself as one not primarily concerned.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)