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
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With a cunningness far out of the ordinary, the poor girl crept along the shrubbery in the direction of the barn.
From The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective by Chester K. Steele
Before the bishop spoke agin you could see his craziness and his cunningness both working in his face.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap.'
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis