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

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