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Thesaurus: cunning

Knowing; skillful; dexterous.

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  1. a. Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
  2. a. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
  3. a. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
  4. a. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
  5. a. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
  6. a. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
  7. adj. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
  8. adj. marked by skill in deception
  9. adj. showing inventiveness and skill
  10. n. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  11. n. crafty artfulness (especially in deception)