I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cunning/clever/ingenious
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They devised a cunning plan to get back their money.
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The gang devised a cunning plan to rob the bank.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cunning marketing ploy
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a cunning model of the world
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Diane was a cold and cunning woman who preyed upon lonely teenagers.
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Hawkeye was very cunning - he always waited until his enemy was alone and unarmed before making his attack.
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His leadership style was to maintain power through a combination of force and cunning strategy.
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She's a cunning little devil! She left for school as usual, and then went into town instead with her friends.
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The coach quickly came up with a cunning counterattack.
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There was a small black sofa with cunning red and blue cushions on it.
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They use all kinds of cunning tricks to make people give them money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it seems that nothing, not even one of Baldrick's cunning plans, can save them.
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But the wicked creature was very cunning , and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wanted.
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It was only the latest chapter in the book on the dangerous, amoral, but cunning place called Arkansas.
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She brought about the death of Pelias by a cunning trick.
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The book talks, and is very cunning .
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The brightest are wasted: the cunning triumph: the robber barons are back.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The few people that escaped the crazed gunman did so by quick cunning , courage, and luck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And a cunning of its own.
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And there's his diabolical cunning about the newspapers and radio and so on.
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Organizing a political party, even a small and stupid one, must take at least a degree of native cunning .
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Perhaps one could justify riches as the reward for the skill, diligence, foresight and cunning of the original creator.
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The archetypal survivor is the trickster, and his strategy is wily cunning .
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This process shows great cunning on the part of Nature, also a good deal of cleverness on the part of George.
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Time and again the new Phoenix King proved his cunning as a general.