Cunning
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
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Cunning Quotations
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush
Cunning Translations
cunning in Afrikaans is slim
cunning in Dutch is slim, doortrapt, gewiekst, listig
cunning in Finnish is viekas
cunning in German is schlau, listig
cunning in Latin is dolosus, astus
cunning in Norwegian is utspekulert
cunning in Swedish is underfundig, slug, illmarig, knepig, list, listig
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