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

That was his craftiness and his cunningness working in him.

From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don

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

The cunningness and zeal with which they enforce individual rights in property may be cited in connection with a food tree.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)