- (a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
- (a.) Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
- (a.) Wrought with or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
- (a.) Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
- (a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
- (a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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