Thesaurus / cunnings
FEEDBACK- as iningenuity
- as inknow-how
- as inlegerdemain
- as inmastery
- as inskill
- as instrategy
- as inexpertise
- as inone-upmanship
- as insleight
- as incapability
- as incraftiness
- as indeviousness
- as infoxiness
- as inacumen
- as inindirection
- as inshadiness
- as inshiftiness
- as inshiftiness
- as inslyness
- as inslyness
- as insneakiness
- as intrickiness
- as inunderhandedness
- as incraft
- as incraft
- as indeceit
- as indeception
- as indexterity
- as indishonesty
- as induplicity
- as inevasion
- as inexpertise/expertness
- as infinesse
- as inguile
synonyms for cunnings
synonyms for cunnings
- ability
- aptitude
- background
- capability
- expertise
- ingenuity
- knowledge
- proficiency
- wisdom
- adroitness
- art
- command
- craft
- cunning
- dexterity
- experience
- expertness
- faculty
- flair
- knack
- savoir-faire
- artfulness
- chicanery
- conjuring
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceit
- deception
- hocus-pocus
- manipulation
- trickery
- ability
- comprehension
- dexterity
- familiarity
- finesse
- genius
- grasp
- knack
- know-how
- knowledge
- proficiency
- prowess
- skill
- understanding
- virtuosity
- wizardry
- acquirement
- adeptness
- adroitness
- attainment
- capacity
- cleverness
- cunning
- deftness
- expertness
- grip
- ken
- mastership
- power
- expertism
- accomplishment
- art
- artistry
- clout
- competence
- dexterity
- experience
- expertise
- finesse
- ingenuity
- intelligence
- job
- know-how
- proficiency
- prowess
- quickness
- readiness
- savvy
- technique
- address
- adroitness
- aptitude
- cleverness
- command
- craft
- cunning
- deftness
- dodge
- ease
- expertness
- facility
- goods
- handiness
- knack
- line
- makings
- moxie
- profession
- skillfulness
- sleight
- smarts
- stuff
- trade
- expertism
- one's thing
- right stuff
- what it takes
- action
- approach
- blueprint
- design
- game plan
- method
- plan
- planning
- policy
- procedure
- program
- project
- scenario
- scheme
- system
- angle
- artifice
- brainchild
- craft
- cunning
- game
- gimmick
- layout
- proposition
- racket
- scene
- setup
- slant
- story
- subtlety
- tactics
- grand design
- maneuvering
- ability
- competence
- facility
- know-how
- proficiency
- prowess
- savvy
- skill
- adroitness
- aptness
- art
- bag
- chops
- cleverness
- command
- craft
- deftness
- dexterity
- expertness
- finesse
- goods
- ingeniousness
- judgment
- knack
- line
- makings
- mastery
- readiness
- skillfulness
- stuff
- ableness
- cunning
- dodge
- masterliness
- one's thing
- gamesmanship
- artfulness
- competition
- cunning
- cutthroat
- bettering
- cageyness
- canniness
- competitive advantage
- competitive edge
- outsmarting
- outwitting
- rivaling
- capacity
- competence
- effectiveness
- efficiency
- facility
- means
- potential
- power
- proficiency
- skill
- wherewithal
- adequacy
- aptitude
- art
- craft
- cunning
- efficacy
- faculty
- might
- potency
- potentiality
- qualification
- qualifiedness
- artfulness
- chicanery
- craftiness
- crookedness
- cunning
- foxiness
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- chicanery
- craftiness
- cunning
- deviousness
- guile
- shiftiness
- shrewdness
- slickness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- trickery
- trickiness
- wiliness
- caginess
- canniness
- acuity
- awareness
- brilliance
- guile
- ingenuity
- insight
- intellect
- intelligence
- intuition
- judgment
- sensitivity
- shrewdness
- vision
- wisdom
- wit
- acuteness
- astuteness
- brains
- cleverness
- comprehension
- cunning
- discernment
- discrimination
- farsightedness
- grasp
- keenness
- perception
- perspicacity
- perspicuity
- refinement
- sagacity
- sharpness
- smartness
- smarts
- understanding
- good taste
- percipience
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrousness
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- pretense
- slyness
- trapping
- treachery
- trickery
- cozening
- defrauding
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dissemblance
- entrapping
- overreaching
- smoke and mirrors
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- art
- technique
- ability
- adeptness
- adroitness
- aptitude
- artistry
- cleverness
- competence
- cunning
- dexterity
- expertness
- handicraft
- ingenuity
- knack
- know-how
- proficiency
- art
- artfulness
- artifice
- contrivance
- craftiness
- cunning
- duplicity
- foxiness
- guile
- ruse
- shrewdness
- slyness
- stratagem
- strategy
- subterfuge
- subtlety
- trickery
- wiles
- wiliness
- cageyness
- canniness
- disingenuity
- chicanery
- deception
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- fraud
- hypocrisy
- treachery
- trickery
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrousness
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- fraudulence
- guile
- imposition
- pretense
- slyness
- trapping
- cozening
- defrauding
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dissemblance
- entrapping
- overreaching
- smoke and mirrors
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
- betrayal
- deceit
- disinformation
- duplicity
- falsehood
- fraud
- hypocrisy
- lying
- mendacity
- treachery
- trickery
- untruth
- artifice
- beguilement
- blarney
- cheat
- circumvention
- cozenage
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deceptiveness
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dupery
- equivocation
- flimflam
- fraudulence
- guile
- hokum
- imposition
- insincerity
- juggling
- legerdemain
- pretense
- prevarication
- sophism
- treason
- trickiness
- trumpery
- defraudation
- artistry
- cleverness
- deftness
- finesse
- ingenuity
- knack
- know-how
- mastery
- nimbleness
- proficiency
- skill
- smoothness
- tact
- address
- adroitness
- aptness
- art
- craft
- cunning
- effortlessness
- expertise
- expertness
- facility
- handiness
- neatness
- readiness
- skillfulness
- touch
- chicanery
- corruption
- criminality
- deceit
- duplicity
- falsehood
- fraud
- graft
- infidelity
- mendacity
- treachery
- trickery
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- craft
- crookedness
- cunning
- double-dealing
- faithlessness
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraudulence
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- insidiousness
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- artifice
- chicanery
- deceit
- dishonesty
- falsehood
- hypocrisy
- cunning
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dualism
- duality
- faithlessness
- fraud
- guile
- one-upmanship
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- skullduggery
- treachery
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- dissemblance
- Judas kiss
- stab in back
- treacherousness
- two-facedness
- twoness
- dodging
- artifice
- circumvention
- cunning
- ditch
- dodge
- elusion
- equivocation
- evasiveness
- excuse
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
- come-off
- cop-out
- equivocating
- eschewal
- evading
- fancy footwork
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- runaround
- stonewall
- ability
- ableness
- adroitness
- aptness
- art
- cleverness
- command
- competence
- craft
- cunning
- deftness
- dexterity
- dodge
- facility
- finesse
- goods
- ingeniousness
- judgment
- knack
- know-how
- line
- makings
- oil
- one's thing
- prowess
- readiness
- savvy
- sharpness
- skill
- skillfulness
- stuff
- acumen
- competence
- guile
- quickness
- savvy
- skill
- sophistication
- subtlety
- tact
- adeptness
- adroitness
- artfulness
- artifice
- bluff
- cleverness
- con
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- delicacy
- diplomacy
- discernment
- discretion
- feint
- gimmick
- polish
- racket
- ruse
- savoir-faire
- stratagem
- trick
- wile
- big stick
- grift
- runaround
- trickery
- artfulness
- artifice
- chicanery
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- duplicity
- jive
- ruse
- sellout
- treachery
- trickiness
- wiliness
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- dissemblance
- double-cross
- foul play
- runaround
- sharp practice
- stab in the back
antonyms for cunnings
MOST RELEVANT
- clumsiness
- ignorance
- impotence
- inability
- incompetence
- ineptness
- stupidity
- awkwardness
- ineptitude
- lack
- want
- clumsiness
- ignorance
- inability
- incompetence
- ineptness
- lack
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- misunderstanding
- want
- weakness
- impotence
- surrender
- amateurishness
- failure
- inefficiency
- clumsiness
- ignorance
- inability
- incompetence
- ineptness
- lack
- avocation
- difficulty
- entertainment
- fun
- stupidity
- incapability
- incapacity
- inexperience
- ignorance
- inability
- inadequacy
- incapability
- incompetence
- ineptness
- weakness
- lack
- clumsiness
- stupidity
- impotence
- inability
- incapability
- incapacity
- incompetence
- ineffectiveness
- inefficiency
- ineptness
- weakness
- inaptitude
- lack
- ignorance
- insensitivity
- stupidity
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- misunderstanding
- denseness
- inability
- ineptness
- obtuseness
- artlessness
- constancy
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- innocence
- loyalty
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- constancy
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- innocence
- loyalty
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- constancy
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- innocence
- loyalty
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- fairness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- honesty
- honor
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- constancy
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- innocence
- loyalty
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- constancy
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- innocence
- loyalty
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- constancy
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- innocence
- loyalty
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- fairness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- honesty
- openness
- sincerity
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- reality
- uprightness
- faithfulness
- forthrightness
- honesty
- loyalty
- sincerity
- truth
- openness
- frankness
- honor
- trustworthiness
- truthfulness
- uprightness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- honesty
- loyalty
- truth
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- frankness
- innocence
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- fairness
- scrupulousness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- honesty
- openness
- sincerity
- truth
- truthfulness
- constancy
- faithfulness
- loyalty
- trustworthiness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- honesty
- honor
- openness
- sincerity
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- uprightness
- artlessness
- naïveté
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How to use cunnings in a sentence
His financial independence was one reason why my alarmingly outspoken Master was innocent of the cunnings of diplomacy.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDAHeeding such persuasions, India has proved herself not witless against the thousand cunnings of time.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDAFew men, incidentally, are deep enough to avail themselves of all the crafts and cunnings with which they may be accredited.
SHE BUILDETH HER HOUSEWILL COMFORTThat something was our good friend Reynard—Zorro they style him out here—whose proverbial cunning exceeds all other cunnings.
UNEXPLORED SPAINABEL CHAPMANThere are many cunnings among those who struggle in the net of power, and a great subtlety had been born in the mind of Lysias.
ULRIC THE JARLWILLIAM O. STODDARD