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Example sentences for: cunning

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I can't recall another actor who seems at once so earnest and so cunning, so ingenuous yet with something so clearly up his sleeve.
At worst, he was a cold and cunning strategist without a glimmer of moral doubt, a man as happy to humiliate his friends, even execute them, as he is to commit mass murder--all in the name of consolidating power.
In the opening scenes, for instance, even as McTeer enacts Nora's dependence on her husband, she shows the cunning that is the only outlet for the character's acute and sensitive mind--submission as manipulation.
Like the pioneers of the Old West, Pooh is endlessly greedy, and he is cunning in pursuit of that greed.
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.