cunning (n.)
- ability
- acute
- address
- adept
- adeptness
- adroitness
- agility
- airmanship
- ambidexterity
- arch
- art
- artfulness
- artifice
- artisanship
- artistry
- bravura
- brilliance
- capability
- capacity
- clean
- cleverness
- command
- competence
- control
- coordination
- crack
- crackerjack
- craft
- craftiness
- craftsmanship
- cunning
- cute
- daedal
- dainty
- deceit
- deceitfulness
- deep
- deftness
- designing
- deviousness
- dexterity
- dextrousness
- diplomacy
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- efficiency
- expert
- expertise
- expertness
- facility
- faithlessness
- falseness
- fancy
- feline
- finesse
- foxiness
- furtiveness
- good
- grace
- grip
- guile
- handiness
- handy
- horsemanship
- hypocrisy
- indirection
- ingeniousness
- ingenuity
- insidiousness
- keen
- know-how
- knowing
- marksmanship
- mastership
- mastery
- mignon
- neat
- politic
- professional
- proficiency
- prowess
- quick
- quickness
- readiness
- ready
- resource
- resourcefulness
- savoir-faire
- savvy
- seamanship
- sharp
- sharpness
- shiftiness
- shrewdness
- skill
- skillfulness
- slick
- slickness
- slim
- sly
- slyness
- smart
- smooth
- sneakiness
- some
- style
- subtlety
- tact
- tactfulness
- technique
- timing
- treachery
- trickiness
- virtuosity
- virtuoso
- wary
- wile
- wiliness
- wit
- wizardry
- workmanship
cunning (adj.)
- acute
- adept
- adroit
- ambidextrous
- apt
- arch
- art
- artful
- artistic
- astute
- authoritative
- brilliant
- cagey
- calculating
- canny
- clean
- clever
- collusive
- coordinated
- crack
- craft
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- cute
- daedal
- dainty
- deceitful
- deep
- deep-laid
- deft
- delicate
- designing
- devious
- dexterous
- dextrous
- diplomatic
- dishonest
- double
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-tongued
- duplicitous
- excellent
- expert
- faithless
- false
- fancy
- feline
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- good
- goodish
- graceful
- guileful
- handy
- indirect
- ingenious
- insidious
- inventive
- keen
- knowing
- magisterial
- masterful
- masterly
- neat
- pawky
- perfidious
- politic
- professional
- proficient
- quick
- ready
- resourceful
- scheming
- serpentine
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- skillful
- slick
- slim
- slippery
- sly
- smart
- smooth
- snaky
- sneaky
- some
- sophistical
- statesmanlike
- stealthy
- strategic
- style
- stylish
- subtle
- supple
- surreptitious
- tact
- tactful
- tactical
- timing
- treacherous
- tricksy
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- virtuoso
- vulpine
- wary
- well-done
- wily
- workmanlike
To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.
'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I 'ld have challenged him.
The cunning livery of hell.
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
