Words similar to cunning

Example sentences for: cunning

How can you use “cunning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

By 1810, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, enterprise begun with Slater’s cunning had spawned a vibrant cotton-spinning industry throughout New England.
North East Margaree has a salmon museum devoted to the fish’s life cycle and the cunning tricks of poachers.
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.
Almost all the scenes she writes and stages are blandly generalized--a homogeneity that seems part commercial cunning (her movies go down easy, like Muzak) and part the result of being rich and snobbishly insulated on the Upper West Side of New York City, that magic kingdom where people parade their liberalism but the word "Brooklyn" is always good for a laugh and a shudder.
Climb like a cucumber, fall like an aubergine; Stretch your feet only as far as your blanket allows; No tree has reached the sky; The foot that is too swift must be cut off; He who eats the Sultan's raisins must give him dates, or, put another way, A man without cunning is like an empty matchbox.