Cunning

Cun´ning Pronunciation: kŭn´nĭng

a.	1.	Knowing; skillful; dexterous. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. - Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. - Gen xxv. 27.
	2.	Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. Over them Arachne high did lift - Spenser.
	3.	Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. - South.
	4.	Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
n.	1.	Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. Let my right hand forget her cunning. - Ps. cxxxvii. 5. A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. - Chapman.
	2.	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. - Locke. We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. - Bacon.

Noun	1.	cunning - shrewdness in deception; "as cunning as a fox"
	2.	cunning - shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception Synonyms: craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness, craft
	3.	cunning - drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
Adj.	1.	cunning - attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" Synonyms: cute
	2.	cunning - 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" Synonyms: foxy, guileful, knavish, crafty, sly, tricksy, wily, dodgy, tricky, slick
	3.	cunning - showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem" Synonyms: ingenious, clever

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