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

Wealth of learning is intangible Wealth of cunningness is tangible!

From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by Narayanan, A. R.

There were a great sensation at that, an' it showed the cunningness o' Winch.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various

Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap.'

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob