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cunning

  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌnɪŋ/

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

Other meanings

  1. Skillful, artful.

  2. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.

    “cunning work”

Word history

From Old English "cunnende".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “cunning” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.