Usually means: Skillful use of deceit, manipulation.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. cunningness: Merriam-Webster
  2. cunningness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cunningness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cunningness: Wordnik
  5. cunningness: Wiktionary
  6. Cunningness, cunningness: Dictionary.com
  7. Cunningness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. cunningness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Cunningness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. cunningness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. cunningness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. cunningness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cunningness: Legal dictionary

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  1. cunningness: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cunningness)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The state or quality of being cunning
▸ noun:  (countable) A cunning act

Similar:
subtility, slyness, canniness, guilefulness, sneakiness, subtlety, cleverishness, deviousness, cleverness, tricksiness, more...

Opposite:
naivety, honesty, straightforwardness

Adjectives:
own, great, vile, such, fool, amazing, mere

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Similar:
subtility, slyness, canniness, guilefulness, sneakiness, subtlety, cleverishness, deviousness, cleverness, tricksiness, more...

Opposite:
naivety, honesty, straightforwardness

Adjectives:
own, great, vile, such, fool, amazing, mere



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