Sentence examples for skillful cunning from inspiring English sources
Diplomats at the United Nations from other Latin American missions say that he is a skillful, cunning midfielder, but they snicker about the way he bosses his team around as if he were their coach.
Encourage the belief that all true wealth comes from skillful manipulation and cunning, or from sudden, brilliant and lucky strokes that leave the plodding, ordinary worker and saver in the dust.
The more wary among our swing voters chose words such as "cunning" and "skillful", but overall there was considerable appreciation of the plucky upstart.
/ skillful at evil schemes, cunning; a currently fashionable, hands-on aesthetic often employing salvaged materials that tends to draw attention to its own resourcefulness, as in, "Piet Hein Eek's scrap-wood cabinets are truly artisanal, but Martino Gamper's tables and chairs made from recycled Gio Ponti hotel furniture take crafty to a whole new level".
Shippey notes that Saruman's name repeats this view of technology: in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon used by Tolkien to represent the Language of Rohan in the book, the root word searu means "clever", "skillful" or "ingenious" and has associations with both technology and treachery that are fitting for Tolkien's portrayal of Saruman, the "cunning man".
Their strikes were skillful.
