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

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

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

Esther well knew the stubbornness of which she was capable upon this one question, and the cunningness of it was like her.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone