CUNNING in a Sentence

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113 example sentences for CUNNING, such as:

1. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
2. This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage.
3. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.
4. But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.
5. The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and artifice were often more effective than military might.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUNNING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cunning
 a.  knowing; skillful; artful; designing; deceitful
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  "I don't like to say," and Rhett shot a look of drunken cunning at Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Perhaps it was not, Lily reflected; but it should be soon, unless she had lost her cunning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  "You're a cunning thing," he offered, patting the back of her shoulder in an exploratory manner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
8  Whereupon Stubb quickly pulled to the floating body, and hailing the Pequod to give notice of his intentions, at once proceeded to reap the fruit of his unrighteous cunning.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
9  But one night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
10  Everywhere in the country tonight the old party politicians are studying this vote, and setting their sails by it; and nowhere will they be quicker or more cunning than here in our own city.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
11  "Such cunning is not without its deviltry," exclaimed Hawkeye, when he met the disappointed looks of his assistants.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
12  The sticks were removed, and the stones lifted; for Indian cunning was known frequently to adopt these objects as covers, laboring with the utmost patience and industry, to conceal each footstep as they proceeded.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
13  The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
14  This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  The cunning ones are jealous," said the Huron; "I go.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
Example Sentence:
1  I told him I knew nothing of him myself; I had heard him characterized as a cunning man.
2  His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.
3  The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and artifice were often more effective than military might.
4  However, never under-estimate the capacity for guile of a truly cunning and determined terrorist.