Example sentences for: cunningly

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "It is a far from ideal position from which to negotiate with a partner who has nothing more to lose and who cunningly exerts an effective blackmail by threatening even greater chaos."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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