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cunning 音标拼音: [k'ʌnɪŋ] a. 狡猾的,巧妙的,可爱的 狡猾的,巧妙的,可爱的 cunning adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; " a cute kid with pigtails"; " a cute little apartment"; " cunning kittens"; " a cunning baby" [ synonym: { cunning}, { cute}] 2: 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 Dick"; " a wily old attorney" [ synonym: { crafty}, { cunning}, { dodgy}, { foxy}, { guileful}, { knavish}, { slick}, { sly}, { tricksy}, { tricky}, { wily}] 3: showing inventiveness and skill; " a clever gadget"; " the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; " an ingenious solution to the problem" [ synonym: { clever}, { cunning}, { ingenious}] n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [ synonym: { craft}, { craftiness}, { cunning}, { foxiness}, { guile}, { slyness}, { wiliness}] 2: crafty artfulness ( especially in deception) Cunning \ Cun" ning\ ( k[ u^] n" n[ i^] ng), a. [ AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st { Con}, { Can}.] 1. Knowing; skillful; dexterous. " A cunning workman." -- Ex. xxxviii. 23. [ 1913 Webster] " Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature' s own sweet and cunning hand laid on. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Esau was a cunning hunter. -- Gen xxv. 27. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. [ 1913 Webster] Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful. [ 1913 Webster] They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. [ Colloq. U. S.] -- Barlett. Syn: { Cunning}, { Artful}, { Sly}, { Wily}, { Crafty}. Usage: These epithets agree in expressing an aptitude for attaining some end by peculiar and secret means. Cunning is usually low; as, a cunning trick. Artful is more ingenious and inventive; as, an artful device. Sly implies a turn for what is double or concealed; as, sly humor; a sly evasion. Crafty denotes a talent for dexterously deceiving; as, a crafty manager. Wily describes a talent for the use of stratagems; as, a wily politician. A cunning man often shows his dexterity in simply concealing. An artful man goes further, and exerts his ingenuity in misleading. A crafty man mingles cunning with art, and so shapes his actions as to lull suspicions. The young may be cunning, but the experienced only can be crafty. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. Wiliness is a species of cunning or craft applicable only to cases of attack and defense." -- Crabb. [ 1913 Webster]
Cunning \ Cun" ning\, n. [ AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See { Cunning}, a.] 1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] Let my right hand forget her cunning. -- Ps. cxxxvii. 5. [ 1913 Webster] A carpenter' s desert Stands more in cunning than in power. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft. [ 1913 Webster] Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 254 Moby Thesaurus words for " cunning": Byzantine, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, Machiavellic, ability, acute, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, agility, airmanship, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, animal cunning, apt, arch, art, artful, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistic, artistry, astute, authoritative, bad faith, bravura, brilliance, brilliant, cagey, cageyness, calculating, canniness, canny, capability, capacity, chiseling, clean, clever, cleverness, collusive, command, competence, control, coordinated, coordination, covinous, crack, crackerjack, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, crafty, crooked, cunning, cunningness, cute, daedal, dainty, deceit, deceitful, deceitfulness, deep, deep- laid, deft, deftness, delicate, designing, devious, deviousness, dexterity, dexterous, dexterousness, dextrous, dextrousness, diplomacy, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double, double- dealing, double- faced, double- minded, double- tongued, doublehearted, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicitous, duplicity, efficiency, excellent, expert, expertise, expertness, facility, faithless, faithlessness, false, false- principled, falsehearted, falseheartedness, falseness, fancy, feline, finagling, finesse, foxiness, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, furtiveness, good, goodish, grace, graceful, grip, guile, guileful, guilefulness, handiness, handy, horsemanship, hypocrisy, improbity, indirect, indirection, ingenious, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidious, insidiousness, inventive, keen, know- how, knowing, low cunning, magisterial, marksmanship, masterful, masterly, mastership, mastery, mignon, neat, no mean, pawkiness, pawky, perfidious, politic, practical ability, professional, proficiency, proficient, prowess, quick, quickness, quite some, readiness, ready, resource, resourceful, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, savoir- faire, savvy, scheming, seamanship, serpentine, sharp, sharpness, shiftiness, shifty, shrewd, shrewdness, skill, skillful, skillfulness, slick, slickness, slim, slippery, sly, slyness, smart, smooth, snaky, sneak attack, sneakiness, sneaky, some, sophistical, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, style, stylish, subtile, subtility, subtilty, subtle, subtlety, supple, surreptitious, surreptitiousness, tact, tactful, tactfulness, tactical, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the compleat, the complete, timing, treacherous, treacherousness, treachery, trickiness, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two- faced, two- facedness, underhand, underhanded, underhandedness, virtuosity, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well- considered, well- contrived, well- designed, well- devised, well- done, well- invented, well- laid, well- planned, well- reasoned, well- thought- out, well- weighed, wile, wiliness, wily, wit, wizardry, workmanlike, workmanship
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