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Definition of Cunningly
1. Adverb. In an attractive manner. "How cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure"
2. Adverb. In an artful manner. "Had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"
Partainyms: Artful, Crafty, Cunning, Foxy, Knavish, Sly, Tricky
Definition of Cunningly
1. adv. In a cunning manner; with cunning.
Definition of Cunningly
1. Adverb. With cunning, cleverly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cunningly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunningly
| cunning cunning folk cunninger cunningest cunninghams cunningly (current term) cunningman cunningmen cunningness cunningnesses | cunnings cunny-catching cunonia family |
Literary usage of Cunningly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (1915)
"Ocean around the uttermost rim of the cunningly-fashioned shield. Now when he
had wrought the shield great and strong, then wrought he him a corslet ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"They cunningly the most unsatisfactory thing both in life assert in their poems
all kinds of seraphic and in all art. Another peculiarity dis- allusions in ..."
3. The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the by Edward Coke (1671)
"1 H-4.nu.70., 2 H-4. C.22. Vide 2 1 R.2. nu. 44. 26 H.á.ca.i. Afh of Parliament
ought to be plainly , and clearly, anil not cunningly and darkly penned ..."
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