Example sentences for: cunningly

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

  • 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.

  • Leone, Schickel writes, developed a style that alternated cunningly between extreme wide shots and extreme close-ups partly in an effort to monumentalize Eastwood's face; the director's mise en scène became "a landscape of masks."

  • The symbols, however, have been cunningly reversed.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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