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ADVERB
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in an attractive manner
how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure -
in an artful manner
had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?
he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced
How To Use cunningly In A Sentence
- This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
- But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
- Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
- She cunningly milked him for anything she could learn about who his master was.
- It was a crossbarred pattern, with many hues cunningly interwoven. The Color of Her Panties
- She was dressed in a classic black silk gown with a sable stole cunningly draped around her shoulders so that the moth holes wouldn't show. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
- During the opening credit sequence, the main character cunningly eludes a patrol car.
- Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the The Golf Course Mystery
- The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
- The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental. Speaking in Tongues
