cunningness
Example Sentences
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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
Field went away rather impressed by the cunningness of the dodge.
From The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap.'
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
