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

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 Steele, Chester K.

That was his craftiness and his cunningness working in him.

From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don

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)