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

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)

There was a fine cunningness about those forgotten builders who set up this royal pyramid.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

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