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Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware.
We cannot be exclusionary in our quest for recognition for our armor and cavalry troopers who are in harm's way against a cunning foe.
They star as two of the kids in a cunning casting move designed to appeal to the tweenager crowd.
In some scenes Bond brazens it out, fists flailing or guns blazing, to pick off the enemy, but most of the time greater cunning is needed.
I think he is a man of limited intelligence, considerable low cunning, self-esteem born of blinkered privilege and a mean spirit.
He acquired a reputation for being bloodthirsty and ruthless, to go with his reputation for cunning.
Azmoth the Clever, a master at leadership and full of cunning, was the scouting and skirmishing army for the One.
Come next year these unexceptional throwbacks might have mutated into cunning reinventors.
Anthony, while fully deserving his Man Of The Match award, could do with some of his Roman namesake's cunning.
Those raised in urban Western understanding of the psychology of the animal kingdom tend to view the fox as a cunning, sly, deceitful animal.
Diplomacy as a game values the sly, the cunning, the underhanded, the crafty.
She was a rather cunning and sly teenager by nature, accented by her narrow brown eyes and usual smirk.
Indian netizens faced with the ban would have to resort to cunning methods to circumvent the block.
I'm worried that it's just another covert and cunning way for Labour to try and neuter other parties.
His cunning, speed, condition, and endurance can tax the physique and patience of his pursuers to the utmost.
Nevertheless, we should at least expect some caprice or cunning from our thieves.
Do not play games with me, lovely, for my ferocious wit and cunning is sure to cut you to pieces!
The cunning sniper up on the hill in the first mission certainly had my number.
I hereby make a vow, not to cheat, but to win quizzes here on in on my wit and intelligence alone, forbearing all use of my fox-like cunning.
But increasingly it seems that there is no plan of any kind, cunning or otherwise.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You are a cunning one, captain, but I really think you are overcareful sometimes.
They will have smiled at his childish tempers, applauded his snakelike cunning, and laughed outright at his heathen superstitions.
Furniture of ivory, of ebony and lemonwood, preciously inlaid, gave to the place an air of cunning confusion.
He thinks he has the cunning of all the animals, and that no one can outwit him.
But Reuters tired arm had lost its cunning and, try as he would, he could not get the ball over the plate.
But Themistocles was not the man to be hoodwinked by the simple cunning of the Spartans.
He turned it on mysell twa-three times, the cunning devil, trying to keek into me, to see if he could use me.
An air of grottoes, of stone embellishments, arbours, and cunning recesses shed itself over the landskip.
This was no tricky old cow pony, but a natively vicious, powerful, and cunning young horse.
His companions, not being so cunning as he, and knowing they could outwalk him, readily consented to this arrangement.
He has neither the cunning nor the ambition to establish the plutonic empire with it.
We know all his evil cunning, and most of us have seen the rattish, yellow streak that runs clear through him.
By this cunning device, in their rustical eyes, Its tinkle soon passed for a bell of great size.
He is a little live lizard, called a horned frog, very cunning, who lives in a small box.
Thus, though generally esteemed an able diplomatist, he had the cunning of the intriguant, and not the providence of a statesman.
Kamba Tsenam thus revealed himself as a cunning rogue, who had not the slightest respect for the authorities of Saka.
With atavic cunning he sat upon the outside and waited for the triumph of death.
He had the look of a man whose original rustic stolidity had been supercharged with cockney cunning.
The latter was often a cunning worker, but the British tunneller could always be relied on to beat him for pace.
The Cockney voice suggested a mean, back-bent creature with bitten nails and cunning eyes, a Uriah Heep, cringing but sinister.
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