Crossword clues for cunningness
cunningness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cunningness \cun"ning*ness\, n. Quality of being cunning; craft.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being cunning 2 (context countable English) A cunning act
Usage examples of "cunningness".
Therefore, while fully admitting that force, swiftness, protective colours, cunningness, and endurance to hunger and cold, which are mentioned by Darwin and Wallace, are so many qualities making the individual, or the species, the fittest under certain circumstances, we maintain that under any circumstances sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.
The very persistence of the clan organization shows how utterly false it is to represent primitive mankind as a disorderly agglomeration of individuals, who only obey their individual passions, and take advantage of their personal force and cunningness against all other representatives of the species.
Esther well knew the stubbornness of which she was capable upon this one question, and the cunningness of it was like her.
Frenzied rage had replaced the cool cunningness of his earlier behaviour.