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Definition of Cunningest
1. cunning [adj] - See also: cunning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunningest
| cunnies cunning cunning folk cunninger cunningest (current term) cunninghams cunningly cunningman cunningmen cunningness | cunningnesses cunnings cunny-catching cunonia family |
Literary usage of Cunningest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The two fly-wheels whirl in the softest manner; but, prodigious to look upon,
the huge working-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"The two fly-wheels un in the softest manner; but, prodigious to look upon, huge
working-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! ue cunningest engineers are ..."
3. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"Does human nature possess any free, volitional, or truly anthropomorphic element,
or is it only the cunningest of all Nature's clocks? ..."
4. The Story of the Palatines: An Episode in Colonial History by Sanford Hoadley Cobb (1897)
"They said that the lands were not enough, the cunningest among them fomenting
... Nor is it consistent with the fact that " the cunningest among them," such ..."
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