Cunning vs. Cunningness — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Cunning or Cunningness
How to spell Cunning?
Cunning
Correct Spelling
Cunningness
Incorrect Spelling
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Cunning Definitions
Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute
A cunning pet.
Skill in deception; guile.
Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
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Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
(obsolete) Skillful, artful.
(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
Cunning work
Cute, appealing.
Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
The cunning of the fox or hare
(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and whiteNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Esau was a cunning hunter.
Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Over them Arachne high did lift
Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Let my right hand forget her cunning.
A carpenter's desertStands more in cunning than in power.
The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.
Shrewdness in deception;
As cunning as a fox
Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;
A cute kid with pigtails
A cute little apartment
Cunning kittens
A cunning baby
Marked by skill in deception;
Cunning men often pass for wise
Deep political machinations
A foxy scheme
A slick evasive answer
Sly as a fox
Tricky Dik
A wily old attorney
Showing inventiveness and skill;
A clever gadget
The cunning maneuvers leading to his success
An ingenious solution to the problem
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