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Example sentences for: cunning
How can you use “cunning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Today's question, a cunning trap set by guest host Daniel Radosh, forces me to acknowledge authorship of a column in the New York Times Magazine , "The Ethicist," a sort of jumped-up "Dear Abby," responding to ethical queries from readers.
In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning ), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire ), which need no definition.
In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
A piece calls Hillary Clinton's campaign kickoff "cunning" and "brilliantly staged."
By 1810, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, enterprise begun with Slater’s cunning had spawned a vibrant cotton-spinning industry throughout New England.
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