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

It caused about as much excitement as had the failure of the bank because of its cunningness.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar

The truth had come so forcibly, so impulsively, so abruptly, that it had for the time overcome his cunningness; but only for a moment after the other had disappeared was he so.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar

Before the bishop spoke agin you could see his craziness and his cunningness both working in his face.

From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don