cunningly

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Lily Tuck cunningly layers history and character to restore to life Czeslawa Kwoka, who died in Auschwitz.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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

There’s much to appreciate about a show that cunningly strives not only to be deemed good but to make us redefine what that means.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 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

A concealed vent, cunningly let into the real wall, allowed air to enter from outside.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom