cunningly
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Copley has cunningly offered us, however, more than a pause in an artist’s actions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“I’m in the business of human emotion,” Swift says during the show, cunningly nodding to the way she’s commodified her feelings and made a profit on relatability.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
Then it was on to selling him, cunningly and ferociously, to RCA, 20th Century Fox and whoever else would help build the mighty Elvis industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
Passing sentence Judge Geoffery Baker QC described Saeed as a "charlatan", who had carried out a deception that had been "cunningly contrived, skilfully executed, and brazenly maintained over three decades".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
When they return they make bathroom jokes, quips about wetting your pants and running out of toilet paper, eyeing me cunningly while they do so.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing cunningly
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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