Sentence examples for Less cunning from inspiring English sources

Yet he was no less cunning.

(The new Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, is no democrat, and no less cunning than his patron).

But Mayweather, during the first three rounds of the fight, seemed less cunning than confused.

Syria's president may be less cunning and murderous than his late father, Hafez, but he is nobody's pushover.

Kenny Dalglish, the Liverpool manager, later criticised the decision but deep down he may be hoping that it was indeed the right call as a closer examination of the incident shows that, rather than diving, Carroll may actually have tripped over the ball, proving him to be less cunning and more clumsy.

Mr. Schumer has never been ambivalent about his goals and, like his rival, he has never been less than cunning in attaining them.

But Mr. Van Kleek of the retail federation said that the spate of successful theft owed less to cunning than to new levels of brazenness.

That it was released under the guise of a Swedish band, with the pair's identities concealed, was less a cunning marketing ploy to entice fans with the mystery, than that they had no intention of pursuing it.

Of course, this only added to the show's siren song, and I always found some less-than-cunning ways to sneak an episode when my parents were distracted.

In Mr. Hall's "Shrew," Petruchio (Dugald Bruce-Lockhart) is less the customary cunning strategist than what the English would call a yob — a muscle-flexing, ale-swilling lout who regards dropping trou and urinating in public as signs of manliness.

A horde of initially enthusiastic soldiers worn down by a less sophisticated but more cunning army that uses its surroundings to its advantage?