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Difference Between Cunning and Cunningness

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Cunning

Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.

Cunningness

Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.

Cunning

Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.

Cunningness

Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.

Cunning

Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute
A cunning pet.
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Cunningness

Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute
A cunning pet.

Cunning

Skill in deception; guile.

Cunningness

Skill in deception; guile.

Cunning

Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.

Cunningness

Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
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Cunning

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

Cunningness

(uncountable) The state or quality of being cunning

Cunning

(obsolete) Skillful, artful.

Cunningness

(countable) A cunning act

Cunning

(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
Cunning work

Cunningness

Quality of being cunning; craft.

Cunning

Cute, appealing.

Cunning

Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.

Cunning

Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.

Cunning

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

Cunning

The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
The cunning of the fox or hare

Cunning

(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).

Cunning

Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and whiteNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Esau was a cunning hunter.

Cunning

Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Over them Arachne high did lift

Cunning

Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.

Cunning

Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.

Cunning

Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Let my right hand forget her cunning.
A carpenter's desertStands more in cunning than in power.

Cunning

The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.

Cunning

Shrewdness in deception;
As cunning as a fox

Cunning

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Cunning

Drafty artfulness (especially in deception)

Cunning

Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;
A cute kid with pigtails
A cute little apartment
Cunning kittens
A cunning baby

Cunning

Marked by skill in deception;
Cunning men often pass for wise
Deep political machinations
A foxy scheme
A slick evasive answer
Sly as a fox
Tricky Dik
A wily old attorney

Cunning

Showing inventiveness and skill;
A clever gadget
The cunning maneuvers leading to his success
An ingenious solution to the problem

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