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

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)

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)

It caused about as much excitement as had the failure of the bank because of its cunningness.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar