Sentence examples for be cunning from inspiring English sources

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be cunning

adjective

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

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The modern quarterback must be cunning.

"You have to be cunning," he said of the sport.

This may be cunning legal strategy, but it's lousy public relations and worse pastoral care.

By the end the audience realizes that accountants can be cunning, daring and yes, even seductive.

"We knew it had to be cunning, intricate, unconventional and witty," she says.

That you had to be cunning and nasty and sly as well.

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"Steven is cunning and calculating".

That was cunning.

But he is cunning.

Odysseus is cunning.

But a lot of fraud is cunning.

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