Example sentences for: cunningly

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

  • Very early, owing in part to English Protestant propagandists, the word "Jesuitical" came to characterize a form of argument designed less to seek the truth than to make a case, a form of argument that was aggressive and clever but perhaps not always sincere--indeed, one that was at times cunningly equivocal or downright deceitful.

  • Apart from a cunningly tasteless tea-party in an empty swimming pool featuring a little girl and a Jeffrey Dahmer-like mass murderer (Steve Buscemi), Con Air is boring to the marrow.

  • But, just as commentators bemoan the way contemporary pop has degenerated into sampling, remixes, and cover versions, so 2Pac's death seems to be merely a cunningly sampled remixed cover-version medley of previous celebrity deaths.

  • Then there is the media event , an event staged deliberately and cunningly, even manipulatively, for extensive coverage by the media: it has also been called a pseudoevent .

  • More of an obstacle still is the relationship between father and son, which has been poisoned by the death of the young man's mother under circumstances that Lee keeps cunningly under wraps until the movie's galvanic climax, in which the two men go mano a mano on the basketball court.


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