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- noun Plural form of
cunning .
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Examples
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Heeding such persuasions, India has proved herself not witless against the thousand cunnings of time.
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His financial independence was one reason why my alarmingly outspoken Master was innocent of the cunnings of diplomacy.
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His financial independence was one reason why my alarmingly outspoken Master was innocent of the cunnings of diplomacy.
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Heeding such persuasions, India has proved herself not witless against the thousand cunnings of time.
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'Tis true some people have it that have not wit, but there are at least as many foolish people I have ever observed to be fullest of tricks, little ugly plots and designs, unnecessary disguises, and mean cunnings, which are the basest qualities in the world, and makes one the most contemptible, I think; when I once discover them they lose their credit with me for ever.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
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She sat there full of new knowledge and new importance, brimming with experience and strange, unexpected aspirations, purposes, yes -- and cunnings!
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Set before their eyes, in your discourse, and let them see, as in a glass, their own disquiets, their little cunnings, their trifling projects, and their vain hopes.
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Set before their eyes, in your discourse, and let them see, as in a glass, their own disquiets, their little cunnings, their trifling projects, and their vain hopes.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16
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We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't.
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'Tis true some people have it that have not wit, but there are at least as many foolish people that have no good nature, and those are the persons I have ever observed to be fullest of tricks, little ugly plots and designs, unnecessary disguises, and mean cunnings, which are the basest qualities in the world, and makes one the most contemptible, I think; where I once discover them they lose their credit with me for ever.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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