cunningly
cunning
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈkʌn.ɪŋ/ us /ˈkʌn.ɪŋ/
the quality or skill of being clever at planning something so you get what you want, especially by tricking other people: 狡诈;狡猾;机灵
show cunningWe need to show some cunning if we want to defeat the enemy.要想骗过敌人，我们得想点计策。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sly & devious
artful
artfully
artfulness
backdoor
calculating
devious
deviously
deviousness
disingenuous
disingenuously
ducking
guileful
guilefully
legerdemain
Machiavellian
Machiavellianism
tricky
underhand
weaselly
wily

cunning | American Dictionary

cunning
adjective
us/ˈkʌn·ɪŋ/
skillful in planning and ready to deceive people in order to get what you want:
a cunning scheme

cunning

noun[ U ]us/ˈkʌn·ɪŋ/
They made their way safely back through enemy territory by stealth and cunning.

Examples of cunning

cunning
Is there, however, a more general contrast between urban (civil, gentle) and rural (coarse, cunning, traditional) ?
If accused, he can claim to have been duped by a spy even more cunning than himself.
Settlers, too, came from distant countries, some with an alarming novelty of skill, others with an offensive advantage in cunning.
The primary appeal of the case lies in its cunning insistence upon the status quo.
The religious law legalizes the use of cunning in trading, but forbids depriving people of their property illegally.
How then would ordinary people go about dealing with the crafty clerks and cunning runners in charge of their cases?
If they were human, they would become cunning.
Traditional cunning folk, mostly male and rural, continued to be active down to the early twentieth century.
Further, the experts and host continuously characterised perpetrators as cunning predators.
Outwitting squirrels: 101 cunning stratagems to reduce dramatically the egregious misappropriation of seed from your birdfeeder by squirrels.
The bear brought out bravery or cunning, or revealed cowardice in the tale's central characters, and became a necessary component of the genre.
The cunning and brute impositions of the colonizers are juxtaposed with the flexibility, and indeed astonishing persistence and durability, of indigenous behaviours, attitudes and symbols, if not always institutions.
Scarcely less heinous were the clients of cunning men and women : to resort to them was idolatrous, superstitious, and tantamount to making a tacit pact with the archfiend.
Artificial intelligence takes up the analysis on a higher level: the moves of thought are "visible" in infraconscious behavior, instantaneous calculations, abrupt twists of cunning grappling with a difficulty.
Admittedly, books are not being burned - the purifying flame is being put to a more cunning use.
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