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cunningly

[kuhn-ing-lee] / ˈkʌn ɪŋ li /




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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

There’s much to appreciate about a show that cunningly strives not only to be deemed good but to make us redefine what that means.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2024

This system cunningly increases the proportion of offspring with Wolbachia and the virus in the next generation, because females with the bacteria successfully reproduce more frequently than females without.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

It was a snowdrop made of green glass and white glass, cunningly fashioned: it seemed as if it had been plucked from the meadow grass that very morning, and the dew was still upon it.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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