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cunning
01
able to achieve what one wants through sly or underhanded means
Examples
The cunning fox devised a plan to sneak into the henhouse and steal the eggs without being detected.
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most cunning
Comparative
more cunning
gradable
Examples
She came up with a cunning plan to solve the puzzle.
03
attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
Cunning
01
crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
Grammatical Information
animacy status
abstract
Composition
Compound
uncountable
02
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Lexical Tree
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