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

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

Wealth of learning is intangible Wealth of cunningness is tangible!

From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by Narayanan, A. R.

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.