cunning 的 3 个定义
- skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
- adeptness in performance; dexterity: The weaver's hand lost its cunning.
- showing or made with ingenuity.
- artfully subtle or shrewd; crafty; sly.
- Informal. charmingly cute or appealing: a cunning little baby.
- Archaic. skillful; expert.
- Obsolete. present participle of can.
cunning 近义词
devious
imaginative
更多cunning例句
- Philosopher Nick Bostrom conjectures that such an agent might devote all of its superhuman productivity and cunning to “reducing the risk of future disruption” of its precious reward source.
- To demonstrate what he calls Jenkins’s cunning nature, Stepp provided a four-page, handwritten letter Jenkins sent him in April 2017, less than two months after the officer had been arrested.
- Graham shared that a cunning avian thief once swiped his car keys, which he later discovered dangling from a dock halfway around the island.
- The documentary focuses on the ways cunning lawyers have taken advantage of seniors and other vulnerable people.
- It demands the legs of a sprinter, the lungs of a marathoner, and the tactical cunning of a chess grandmaster.
- However, the apple had been made with such cunning that only the red part was poisoned.
- “Ben, who was as cunning and seductive as Diane, really wooed Diane,” says an insider.
- Of course, there is the catch that Nancy has always been a bit more cunning and self-centered (though not self-aware) than Piper.
- Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning.
- Cersei is cunning, focused, and power-hungry—not unlike her father and brothers.
- But this time, with all his cunning and perspiration, he could not induce another throb in the tired engines.
- Aunty Rosa had credited him in the past with petty cunning and stratagem that had never entered into his head.
- In a dream he crossed the crowded hall, avoiding various acquaintances with unconscious cunning.
- Whether this aptitude was combined with the sinuous cunning that is essentially Oriental Nigel did not know.
- Of these Napoleon was well advised, but Bernadotte was too cunning to allow himself to be compromised absolutely.