Cunning

Adjective

 * 1) Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
 * 2) Skillful, artful.
 * 3)  Cute, appealing.

Noun

 * 1) The skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful
 * 2) Aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency.
 * 3) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 236d.
 * indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.

Adjectives for Cunning
giddy; diabolical; cordial; tough; stalwart; gentle; sly; fiendish; premeditated; malicious; devilish; peculiar; infinite; instinctive; unconscious; revengeful; stealthy; artful; swift.

Verbs
acquire through—; apply—; beguile with—; calculate with—; cheat with—; check—; cover—; deceive by—; devise by—; dis¬play—; dispose to—; employ—; entrap by—; excel in—; exercise—; exhibit—; expose—; frame with—; impart—; puff up with—; school in—; trick by—; work—; —hides; —deceives.

Adverbs for Cunning
diabolically; slyly; fiendishly; maliciously; adroitly; cleverly; adeptly; artfully; subtly; insidiously; dangerously; commercially; extremely; astoundingly; profoundly; deliberately; sagaciously; cautiously; carefully; invariably; habitually; incurably; astutely; customarily; ordinarily.

Thesaurus
Byzantine, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, Machiavellic, ability, acute, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, agility, airmanship, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, animal cunning, apt, arch, art, artful, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistic, artistry, astute, authoritative, bad faith, bravura, brilliance, brilliant, cagey, cageyness, calculating, canniness, canny, capability, capacity, chiseling, clean, clever, cleverness, collusive, command, competence, control, coordinated, coordination, covinous, crack, crackerjack, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, crafty, crooked, cunning, cunningness, cute, daedal, dainty, deceit, deceitful, deceitfulness, deep, deep-laid, deft, deftness, delicate, designing, devious, deviousness, dexterity, dexterous, dexterousness, dextrous, dextrousness, diplomacy, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicitous, duplicity, efficiency, excellent, expert, expertise, expertness, facility, faithless, faithlessness, false, false-principled, falsehearted, falseheartedness, falseness, fancy, feline, finagling, finesse, foxiness, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, furtiveness, good, goodish, grace, graceful, grip, guile, guileful, guilefulness, handiness, handy, horsemanship, hypocrisy, improbity, indirect, indirection, ingenious, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidious, insidiousness, inventive, keen, know-how, knowing, low cunning, magisterial, marksmanship, masterful, masterly, mastership, mastery, mignon, neat, no mean, pawkiness, pawky, perfidious, politic, practical ability, professional, proficiency, proficient, prowess, quick, quickness, quite some, readiness, ready, resource, resourceful, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, savoir-faire, savvy, scheming, seamanship, serpentine, sharp, sharpness, shiftiness, shifty, shrewd, shrewdness, skill, skillful, skillfulness, slick, slickness, slim, slippery, sly, slyness, smart, smooth, snaky, sneak attack, sneakiness, sneaky, some, sophistical, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, style, stylish, subtile, subtility, subtilty, subtle, subtlety, supple, surreptitious, surreptitiousness, tact, tactful, tactfulness, tactical, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the compleat, the complete, timing, treacherous, treacherousness, treachery, trickiness, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, two-facedness, underhand, underhanded, underhandedness, virtuosity, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-considered, well-contrived, well-designed, well-devised, well-done, well-invented, well-laid, well-planned, well-reasoned, well-thought-out, well-weighed, wile, wiliness, wily, wit, wizardry, workmanlike, workmanship

Etymology
As a noun from Old English cunnung, as an adjective from Middle English cunnand

Adjective

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, коварен
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:, , , , list en bedrog
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: rusé
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, dörzsölt, , cseles, alattomos


 * Italian:, malizioso
 * Kott:
 * Latin:
 * Polish: sprytny
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, хитрый, лукавый, пронырливый
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: talentueux
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,


 * Latin:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, искусный
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: నేర్పరి


 * : rusé, astucieux, malin
 * : ruzema
 * : 悪賢い (わるがしこい, warugashikoi)


 * : ġēap
 * : astuto, esperto
 * : జిత్తులమారి (jittulamaari)

Noun

 * Bulgarian: коварство, лукавство
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: oveluus, kierous
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, хитрость
 * Telugu: కపటము


 * Bulgarian:, умение
 * Finnish:
 * Romanian: ,


 * Russian:, искусство
 * Telugu: తరహా