cunningly
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There are plenty of other ways that our culture has disguised unhealthy behaviors, as “Maddie’s Secret” so cunningly stresses.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Copley has cunningly offered us, however, more than a pause in an artist’s actions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Then it was on to selling him, cunningly and ferociously, to RCA, 20th Century Fox and whoever else would help build the mighty Elvis industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
Passing sentence Judge Geoffery Baker QC described Saeed as a "charlatan", who had carried out a deception that had been "cunningly contrived, skilfully executed, and brazenly maintained over three decades".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
I just remember a period when, convinced that an apostrophe was definitely required somewhere, I would cunningly suspend a very small one immediately above the “s”, to cover all eventualities.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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