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How to use the word Cunning in a Sentence?

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In the eyes of a manipulator, Love becomes a weapon—a tool wielded with cunning intent to exploit vulnerability and sow the seeds of deception.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

He was really smart and he was cunning at times, and his brother . . . was definitely cunning.

Chris Tucker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

**(C)(P)- EVIL MEN GET MORE UGLY WITH AGE, WHILE WOMEN WHO ARE EVIL GET MORE TACTFUL, CUNNING, DEMURE,STUNNINGLY SOPHISTICATED, PRETTIER, AND WISE. WHO CAN DENY? JUST LOOK AROUND YOU.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

The crafty, the most cunning, most dangerous ones are trying to evade apprehension and they’re estimating tens of thousands of those on a monthly basis as well, and all of it controlled…by the Mexican crime cartels who are making hundreds of millions of dollars a month off of this.

Bob Good

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once again, the critics of Trumps Iran policy are wrong. There was no WW3 after the removal of the Islamic Republics most important military official from the battlefield, four months since that game-changing strike, Irans proxy network continues to operate, but without the charismatic and cunning terrorist who coordinated their efforts. Now is the time to ramp up the pressure on this network.

Behnam Ben Taleblu

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The person who is cunning enough to take his own life without anyone predicting it is more likely someone who acted on his own, so prosecutors have some thinking to do about others who sat down with the prosecutors and gave their information.

James Bergenn

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We need to be absolutely sure that we are not going to end up in a situation where the general election is used as a distraction whilst they (the government) by some cunning wheeze bounce us out of the European Union without a deal.

Emily Thornberry

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Kenyatta has pulled the classic divide-and-rule move of the cunning president, creating as many potential alliances as possible in order to avoid empowering any one successor, this will help him to manage Gideon Moi, William Ruto and others with their own presidential ambitions.

Nic Cheeseman

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

At first blush, individuals may find it reassuring that their data is being collected and processed by faceless corporations rather than their neighbor next door, however, there are two caveats to this logic, he added. First, while your neighbor may not be personally collecting your data, he may very well be the data analyst working at the company that does. In other words, there are distinct individuals within each company whose entire job is to analyze, evaluate, and interact with user data. Ten or more trackers that collect personal data were found on 21.3 percent of the sites covered by the study. CUNNING MALWARE SPREADS, GOES AFTER YOUR BANK ACCOUNT Google Analytics and Facebook Connect are some of the most prominent trackers, according to Ghostery. Google Analytics is in the top ten of the most widely used trackers based on the various services the Internet giant uses, including Google Analytics and Google Analytics Adsense. Facebook Connect is next with three. Google Analytics was found on almost half of all loaded pages at 46.4 percent, while Facebook Connect was on more than a fifth, coming in at 21.9 percent. Other companies that showed include comScore and Twitter. And Google Analytics’s not easy keeping tabs on these trackers since many are n’t installed by the website owner, according to Jeremy Tillman.

Jeremy Tillman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They don't love us here. They think we do all these bad things, that we are cunning and wicked, there is definitely an anti-Russian atmosphere. We don't think it, we feel it.

Tatyana Omelchenko

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He's been very cunning about it.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would like to see someone that's very tough and that can negotiate with the Democrats, and I don't know that he's that person, we need somebody that's a very, very tough, smart, cunning person. I don't know that that's him, and obviously this statement hurt him pretty badly in the eyes of some, unfortunately.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is a coward, a child molester, and a brutal murderer of a woman who loved him so much, he's cunning, he's smart, a former cop, and lucky. And someday his luck's gon na run out.

John Walsh

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He is a very cunning and dangerous individual.

Lee Bates

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He broke out of jail before. He is a cunning individual, no question about it, and a vicious individual. he can make friends easy. He's a master manipulator.

Lee Bates

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He has a history, he broke out of jail before. He is a cunning individual, no question about it, and a vicious individual.

Gabriel DiBernardo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He's extremely clever, and I think he's so clever and cunning he should be a fictional book writer.

Sheldon Adelson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

George Herbert

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

Cesare Pavese

added by anonymous
10 years ago

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Lydia Child

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

Thomas Paine

added by anonymous
10 years ago

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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