cunning Betydning & definition

Eksempler på cunning

• In the novella, cunning bridges the gap between the deviant and the representative of the law who both indulge in fabulation, artifice, and manipulation.

• 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.