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Cunningly

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cun·ning  (knng)
adj.
1. Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
2. Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
3. Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute: a cunning pet.
n.
1. Skill in deception; guile.
2. Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
[Middle English, present participle of connen, to know, from Old English cunnan; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]
cunning·ly adv.
cunning·ness n.
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Adv.1.cunningly - in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure"
cutely
2.Cunninglycunningly - in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"
craftily, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully


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Hardly, however, had Zarathustra left the cave when the old magician got up, looked cunningly about him, and said: "He is gone!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
The Cat cunningly resolved to destroy this chance-made colony.
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Moreover, I had a secret conviction that the woman I was now in search of would prefer one who had had some experience at being a man, who would bring her not the green plums of his love, but the cunningly ripened nectarines, a man to whom love was something of an art as well as an inspiration.
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