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
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
It ran cunningly, taking a line that seemed chosen so as to keep as much hidden as possible from the view, both of the hill-tops above and of the flats to the west.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing cunningly
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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