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Cunning plans, devious stratagems, state-of-the-art conventional forces, and legal and moral proscriptions, can all be helpful.
Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
It is the inspiration for the parish of St Aiden in Robertson Davies's novel The Cunning Man.
Cunning folk send out thousands of these letters with their own name at the top of the list for a payout.
Cunning ham will be teaching at the Humanities and Technology Institute, a branch of Orenburg State University, in the city of Orsk.
But, for Homer, there is a calculated pun on words too, because his hero is a cunning schemer.
Houdini relied on great skill, low cunning, and keeping tiny metal picklocks concealed about his person.
The friend and I both have the same cunning plan, and liberate some of the cups for drinks.
A zombified society, passively allowing itself to be hypnotised by every cunning conman with a used monster to sell.
Far from a road to Damascus moment, the agreement was rather a modus vivendi by cunning, ruthless political operators.
It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need.
But in the end he lacked the sagacity or the low cunning to do the one thing necessary.
Gabriel often relied more upon cunning and tactical exploitation than raw power which the others seemed to possess.
Wrong is correct in emphasizing how Mobutu, the cunning Machiavellian prince, managed to acquire considerable outside help.
Most of them, with Machiavellian cunning, were refusing to answer their telephones.
My opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginners luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores.
Getting a good start was imperative to finish in the top 10 and this meant some cunning seamanship around the start boat to ensure a clean start.
We also tried formulating a cunning plan to discourage a girl who's after him and needs to know she's barking up the wrong tree.
Indian men must shed their moral self-righteousness and acquire a practical sense, a manipulative, this-worldly cunning and aggressiveness.
We think they are too thoughtless and laid-back, they think we are cunning and manipulative.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Cunning old dog is Pearson, as cute and as greedy as a Rio shark.
Cunning hints inviting confidence she rebuffed with violence.
She falls easily when the cunning Jean tempts her at the psychologic moment.
Furniture of ivory, of ebony and lemonwood, preciously inlaid, gave to the place an air of cunning confusion.
The premeditated human contrivance of the nose-ring was too cunning for impulsive brute force, and the creature flinched.
The talk went on, and the peasants from Podolsk told him that it required a great deal of cunning to steal a horse on an estate.
Now, at last, he had no cunning, and he was hazily conscious of his ineffectiveness.
This bird is as large as the gyrfalcon, but, although equal in cunning and address, is possessed of less courage.
This was no other than Thomas Craig, to whose malignity and cunning all her misfortunes were imputable.
Then, for the first time in six weeks, I see that the ironside is cunning in thought.
The Cockney voice suggested a mean, back-bent creature with bitten nails and cunning eyes, a Uriah Heep, cringing but sinister.
There is no more cunning or treacherous a varmint than a true-bred red-skin.
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.
He sometimes attacks openly, but usually does so secretively, with the cunning of the tiger, and kills and slaughters.
Among all those mortals who grew so wise that they learned the secrets of the gods, none was more cunning than Daedalus.
There is a high-grade imbecile that is cunning and shrewd, but he has no will, and he is a criminal.
His method would be cunning and crafty, and it would be done with a lot of showmanship.
He was circling on the trail of the stallion, with cunning intent of ambush.
And then the cunning stroke of implying that her sister was not indisposed to listen to me.
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