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

Esther well knew the stubbornness of which she was capable upon this one question, and the cunningness of it was like her.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

The cunningness and zeal with which they enforce individual rights in property may be cited in connection with a food tree.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The truth had come so forcibly, so impulsively, so abruptly, that it had for the time overcome his cunningness; but only for a moment after the other had disappeared was he so.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar