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cunningly

[kuhn-ing-lee] / ˈkʌn ɪŋ li /




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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

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

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

Thus, many people judge that a wise prince must cunningly foster some hostile action, whenever he has the opportunity, so that in repressing it his greatness will emerge all the more.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli




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