Sentence examples for bit cunning from inspiring English sources

"To succeed, you have to be a little bit cunning," he told me.

I wrote: "A journalist must be clever, educated, brave, rebellious; he or she should have a wide imagination and a good sense of humour, be a bit cynical and sometimes a little bit cunning".

A bit of cunning trickery that only a complete idiot would dream up should see me home".

He knew he was not a major intellect but, as he once told me: "Sure, the civil servants I deal with are more intelligent than I am but I've got that little bit of cunning they lack".

That said, maybe we could solve the problem if only we were a bit more cunning, perhaps burning the haystack and then riffling through the ashes with a magnet.

Against that backdrop, Sir Rodric Braithwaite remains pessimistic about any big readjustment, though he is guardedly hopeful that Britain might rediscover the art of approaching transatlantic matters with a bit more cunning.

With some planning, a bit of cunning promotion and plenty of chutzpah we believe we can encourage debate and maybe enact some change – and get more people interested in what is going on in this country and beyond.

You had to be a little bit more cunning.

Among bits of cunning Mr. Wheeler sold to a department-store client was one which induced youngsters to carry home their new suits instead of having them delivered.

So it was a cunning bit of body horror to see the poor, civilian sleeper agent, trapped midway through a transformation he is desperately trying to avert.

In a culture where people were cast aside, imprisoned and beheaded just to score political points, it seems obvious that the only way to make it was to be a bit of a cunning bastard.