Thesaurus / cunning
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Philosopher Nick Bostrom conjectures that such an agent might devote all of its superhuman productivity and cunning to “reducing the risk of future disruption” of its precious reward source.
DRUGS, ROBOTS, AND THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE: WHY EXPERTS ARE WORRIED ABOUT AIS BECOMING ADDICTSTHOMAS MOYNIHANSEPTEMBER 17, 2021SINGULARITY HUB To demonstrate what he calls Jenkins’s cunning nature, Stepp provided a four-page, handwritten letter Jenkins sent him in April 2017, less than two months after the officer had been arrested.
EX-BAIL BONDSMAN WHO HELPED GUN TRACE TASK FORCE LEADER SELL DRUGS IS HOME FROM PRISONJUSTIN FENTONJUNE 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTGraham shared that a cunning avian thief once swiped his car keys, which he later discovered dangling from a dock halfway around the island.
THE ULTIMATE CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK TRAVEL GUIDESHAWNTÉ SALABERTJUNE 23, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe documentary focuses on the ways cunning lawyers have taken advantage of seniors and other vulnerable people.
SLAVE 4 U: BRITNEY SPEARS & CONSERVATORSHIPSEAN CULLIGANJUNE 21, 2021OZYIt demands the legs of a sprinter, the lungs of a marathoner, and the tactical cunning of a chess grandmaster.
WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN A FAST MILEALEX HUTCHINSONJUNE 11, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEBut this time, with all his cunning and perspiration, he could not induce another throb in the tired engines.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEAunty Rosa had credited him in the past with petty cunning and stratagem that had never entered into his head.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGIn a dream he crossed the crowded hall, avoiding various acquaintances with unconscious cunning.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWhether this aptitude was combined with the sinuous cunning that is essentially Oriental Nigel did not know.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSOf these Napoleon was well advised, but Bernadotte was too cunning to allow himself to be compromised absolutely.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONWORDS RELATED TO CUNNING
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- Machiavellian
- artful
- astute
- corrupt
- crafty
- crooked
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- dangerous
- deceitful
- deceptive
- deep
- designing
- dishonest
- disingenuous
- duplicitous
- ensnaring
- false
- foxy
- guileful
- intriguing
- like a snake in the grass
- perfidious
- perilous
- secret
- slick
- sly
- smooth
- snaky
- sneaking
- stealthy
- subtle
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- wily
- wormlike
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
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- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- disingenuous
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
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