cunningness
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Both “Squid Game” and the reality competition series “Squid Game: The Challenge,” which premiered Nov. 22, pushed contestants to the brink, testing their mental strength and cunningness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Baby Peggy's public is composed of persons with an unbounded capacity for "cunningness" in other people's children.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap.'
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
The truth had come so forcibly, so impulsively, so abruptly, that it had for the time overcome his cunningness; but only for a moment after the other had disappeared was he so.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
That was his craftiness and his cunningness working in him.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis