cunningness

Example Sentences

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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

Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap.'

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

Though she continued to pit her wits against the secret cunningness of the dreaded old man, Soosie was often preoccupied, seeming to regard herself as one not primarily concerned.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

His dauntless courage, his bold feats, his cunningness in council were becoming legendary; in fact, he was for some time a second Marko Kraglievic.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.