cunningly
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“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
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
This disputatious sociopolitical drama is cunningly packaged as a romantic comedy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024
This system cunningly increases the proportion of offspring with Wolbachia and the virus in the next generation, because females with the bacteria successfully reproduce more frequently than females without.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
Orr watched him cunningly with a noiseless grin.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing cunningly
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Jungle Book
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