The phrase "cunning for" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to be sly or slyly seeking something. Example: She was always cunning for ways to get out of doing her chores.
"The Chinese are too cunning for us," he says, decelerating with every fresh lament.
Satan, having heard of this spot, decides to conquer it, by cunning, for himself and his devils.
Thus Senghor was introduced to Senegalese electoral politics, a game he played with masterly cunning for more than 30 years.
For instance, it might seem cunning for a company to try to trick hackers into losing money, by planting dummy accounts somewhere on their system that made the company's financial health seem much worse than it is.
He was not supposed to have a ride in the ninth race, but he picked up a late mount on a horse named Rat Like Cunning for the trainer Joe Orseno -- Elliott's one winner.
(Oddly, the story line echoes Paul Verhoeven's equally absurd, if livelier and more lurid, World War II-era romp, "Black Book".) That's particularly hard on Tang Wei, whose pretty bow mouth and gentle, hothouse manner feel terribly ill suited to a role that calls for cunning, for the emotional violence of sacrifice, betrayal, fanaticism, lust.
Durkin measures out the vital details with great cunning; not for some time, for instance, do we gather that Martha has been out of touch for more than two years, or that her mother is dead, leaving Lucy as the only haven to which she can now flee.
Durkin measures out the vital details with great cunning; not for some time, for instance, do we gather that Martha has been out of touch for more than two years, or that her mother is dead, leaving [her sister] Lucy as the only haven to which she can now flee.
State Republican officials said they had no choice and could take no chances, not after their peers in Florida set a new date for their primary, Monday, Oct. 31st, and then, in a cunning bid for maximum television coverage, promised Halloween candy to voters who came in costume as the candidate they supported.
But perhaps creative perks are actually a cunning way for firms to save money.
Evangulov says that he and Daley have hatched "a cunning plan" for the Olympics.
