cunningness

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Both “Squid Game” and the reality competition series “Squid Game: The Challenge,” which premiered Nov. 22, pushed contestants to the brink, testing their mental strength and cunningness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

Baby Peggy's public is composed of persons with an unbounded capacity for "cunningness" in other people's children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Masters may be more cunning than slaves, but cunningness is not an evidence of a high order of intellectual power.

From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by Brown, William Montgomery

With a cunningness far out of the ordinary, the poor girl crept along the shrubbery in the direction of the barn.

From The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective by Steele, Chester K.

For seeing the cunningness of the new people, they partly feared and partly despised them.

From Old English Chronicles by Various