How To Use Cunningly In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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She cunningly milked him for anything she could learn about who his master was.
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It was a crossbarred pattern, with many hues cunningly interwoven.
The Color of Her Panties
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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
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During the opening credit sequence, the main character cunningly eludes a patrol car.
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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
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The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces.
Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
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The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental.
Speaking in Tongues
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They were like demons, cunningly abseiling upwards to the ceiling to hang over me all night.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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And there wasn't a cunningly concealed cupboard to be seen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cunningly, there is a cool duffle bag in colours to match in which to carry your towel and bestseller.
Times, Sunday Times
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It almost seemed like even the odd bum notes were cunningly placed to assure you the band weren't just up there miming to the albums.
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As we've mentioned in previous articles, the Government cunningly includes earnings growth in that figure.
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The Gherkin, found in the Square mile, is cunningly crafted out of two types of melon and embedded with green beans to highlight its renowned spiralling glass frames.
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The play, of course, was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire.
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They were cunningly disguised in golf clothes.
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And assure your selves worthy Ladies, that I doe not tell this tale onely to follow the order enjoyned me; but also to informe you that such Saint-like holy Sirs, of whom we are too opinionate and credulous, may be, yea and are (divers times) cunningly met withall, in theyr craftinesse, not onely by men, but likewise some of our owne sexe, as shall make it apparant to you.
The Decameron
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It was either that or some boat that had built-in outriggers, each with its own dagger board (which was cunningly interchangeable with the rudder blade), and a central driving seat.
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Upstairs, besides the bedrooms, was a little chapel with some remains of Gothic carving, and a few interesting pictures of the fifteenth century; a cunningly contrived priest-hole, and a long gallery lined with dusty books, whither my lord used to repair on rainy days.
Vanishing England
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Acherontic cave, he very cunningly appropriated his torch; and it was not until the matter became serious, that he could be induced to restore it.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
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However, in Antony's eulogy, he focuses on Caesar's positive traits, and cunningly disproves Brutus' justification for killing Caesar.
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See you how cunningly all her limbs are gyved, and chained to the iron bolts of the bed?
A Monk of Fife
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These are the same unforgiving analysts who talked up the technology boom in the hunt for corporate business, shamelessly ramping up the price of stock which many then cunningly sold near the top of the market.
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As she made good her escape - on foot we hasten to add - the purple dye pack cunningly hidden with the cash blew up and she disappeared in a puff of smoke, albeit minus the wonga and her hat.
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In the Skara Brae object, you can see how cunningly the top and base ridges are off-centre, allowing it initially to be held vertically.
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No matter how cunningly Cat deployed his lifeless tin army, as soon as Roger's soldiers began to march, Cat's men fell over like ninepins.
CHARMED LIFE
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Did their initial meeting happen by pure chance, or was it a set-up from the beginning, cunningly devised by Bruno?
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had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?
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Nothing in this, nor yet the next world, would tempt a Coast Indian into the compact centres of the wild portions of the park, for therein, concealed cunningly, is the "lure" they all believe in.
Legends of Vancouver
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The game has loads of different courses to tackle, all cunningly designed to test your manual dexterity to the maximum.
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He begins to live in style, dressing finely as a gentleman, and cunningly keeping himself beyond the reach of the law.
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Peter answers by the simile of an eggshell, which is cunningly made, yet of necessity to be broken; so is the world, &c. that the excellent state of heaven might be made manifest.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The twins can also be ruthless, as when they cunningly murder the housekeeper.
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The Times manages to avoid direct joke references to his name, but cunningly alludes to it.
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Then it saw the charmer and it darted for him, but he cunningly caught it by the head and with such a grip that I saw the blood gush from the snake's month.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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These junctions are cunningly woven: the twin strands go separate ways along different edges, where they intertwine with new strands.
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These junctions are cunningly woven: the twin strands go separate ways along different edges, where they intertwine with new strands.
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Others, that they may colourably and cunningly hide their grosse ignorance, when they know not the cause of the disease, referre it unto charmes, witchcrafts, magnifical incantations and sorcerie.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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Foliage had been interwoven with the bars so cunningly that there was practically nothing of the interior visible.
COLDHEART CANYON
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There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.
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The emotions always seems real and spontaneous rather than cunningly manipulated to pull out the heartstrings.
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As the title cunningly implies this piece is taken from a test loop prior to Robert's appearance at The Kitchen Video Arts Center in New York, February 5th 1978.
Disquiet
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Cunningly, Mr. Wildes-who admits he had no idea what cannabis or hashish were during that first conversation over a cup of "tay" in the Lennon/Ono kitchen-suggested that cannabis resin might not be written into the law that kept convicted drug possessors out of the country.
The 60-Minute Critics
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This is a cunningly arranged, charming, swinging record which lives up to its title.
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She would later write in her autobiography that she "used to try more and more cunningly to hide my feelings."
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I think we should all try to sneak a cunningly folded piece of paper into the book so that what he actually puts his name to is a document saying:
The Guardian World News
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The piece also cunningly exploits the writer's own gift for confessional monologues.
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Then he loosed the glistering belt and kirtle of mail beneath and taslet that the coppersmiths fashioned; and when he saw the wound where the bitter arrow had lighted, he sucked out the blood and cunningly spread thereon soothing drugs, such as Cheiron of his good will had imparted to his sire.
The Iliad
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And television, devoted to keeping the race close so viewers would keep watching, cunningly deployed a series of gotchas meant to drive down the numbers of whichever guy seemed to be gaining.
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And there wasn't a cunningly concealed cupboard to be seen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some artists thrive on winsome personalities, cunningly distracting listeners from the music with their stylistic excess.
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Some of the signage is a bit strangely done, with grey lettering on beige cloth that's virtually impossible to read, but other than that it's crammed to the gills with rich information, cunningly narrativized and soundscaped by audio artists.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Francie's is small, but mirrors cunningly exaggerate the space she has.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Saab has cunningly thickened and insulated the canvas top to reduce ambient sound, an aspect which could also prove a boon when someone with a Stanley knife comes along to try to steal your CD-changer.
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The play was an adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, cunningly modernized into an anti-capitalist satire.
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Everyone, he says, likes to follow their own particular bent: one man proceeds cautiously, another impetuously; one forcefully, another cunningly.
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They were sly and quick with words and a smile, cunningly tricking their foes.
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Francie's is small, but mirrors cunningly exaggerate the space she has.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Once Alicia (Emmy winner Julianna Margulies) embraced her bad side, in a tumultuous secret liaison with her boss Will (Josh Charles), network TV's most compelling drama is also its steamiest, cunningly blending the personal with a sharply written legal procedural that is never less than stimulating.
Matt Roush's Top 10 (And Then Some) of 2011
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The scheme cunningly subverts the strict German building regulations pertaining to inner-city sites.
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Francie's is small, but mirrors cunningly exaggerate the space she has.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Moral virtues were a cunningly indirect alibi for modish economic vices.
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Having made sure that the bed on which it rested was firm and moderately dry, he covered the box with a strewing of last year's leaves, cunningly trailed a bramble or two over it, and pursued his way more lightsomely, albeit still under some oppression: for the house stood formidably high, and he feared all converse with women.
Hocken and Hunken
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Francie's is small, but mirrors cunningly exaggerate the space she has.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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It was either that or some boat that had built-in outriggers, each with its own dagger board (which was cunningly interchangeable with the rudder blade), and a central driving seat.
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As Huxley would explain, these sources exchange arguments founded "upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth" for strings of half-truths, catch phrases, and scapegoats that "cunningly" associate "the lowest passions with the highest ideals.
Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda
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The enemy cunningly avoided direct confrontation and concentrated on guerrilla warfare.
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While the ski runs are not as cunningly crafted as the other site's labyrinthine arenas, their immense scale produces some splendid moments.
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They wafted into stores around November, and as their title cunningly suggested, were aimed at the super-rich who spent their winters sailing round tiny islands in humongous boats.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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`Meanwhile Charley, cunningly taking advantage of the Dinkie affair in order to curry favour, is being insufferably virtuous and churchy.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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As I got near to the avenue gate, instead of the school on my left there was a prison; and at the door a little thick-set jailer, three feet high and much deformed, and a little deformed jaileress no bigger than himself, were cunningly watching me out of the corners of their eyes, and toothlessly smiling.
Peter Ibbetson
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In those countries where economic assistance is necessary, they have cunningly attributed the present unfortunate stage of the masses solely to the government by former colonial powers, and although they, themselves, have done comparatively little by way of actual help or assistance, they have succeeded in discrediting, in considerable measure, Western aid, by associating it with colonialism and Dollar imperialism.
Canada and NATO
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Through the sinuosities of their vast mythology, he worked cunningly upon the credulity of his people.
The Son of the Wolf
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At first glance it looks like an ordinary telegraph pole but it's really a cunningly disguised mobile phone mast.
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how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure
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collection of perceptions" which makes up our consciousness may be an orderly phantasmagoria generated by the Ego, unfolding its successive scenes on the background of the abyss of nothingness; as a firework, which is but cunningly arranged combustibles, grows from a spark into a coruscation, and from a coruscation into figures, and words, and cascades of devouring fire, and then vanishes into the darkness of the night.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
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He caused so many peeces of silver to be cunningly guilded, as then went for currant mony in Florence, and called Popolines, and after he had lyen with the Lady (contrary to her will and knowledge, her husband had so closely carried the businesse) the money was duely paid to the cornuted Coxcombe.
The Decameron
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And there wasn't a cunningly concealed cupboard to be seen.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of those cool throat mike headsets the spec forces use, cunningly disguised as a frangipanni.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A few quiet ales with the crew… and a special guest from America.
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Cunningly, the virus can even spoof the domain name of the business's email address.
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As in his previous film, cunningly chosen setpieces make the impact.
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The tall young Queen was in crimson satin with cunningly-wrought silver embroideries, trimmed with tufted silver fringe, her stomacher stiff with silver bullion studded with gold rosettes and Roman pearls, her bodice cut low to display her splendid neck, decked by a carcanet of pearls and rubies, and surmounted by a fan-like cuff of guipure, high behind and sloping towards the bust.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
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In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire), which need no definition.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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On her part, she cunningly milked him for anything she could learn about who his master was, and any details of his amours.
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In the Skara Brae object, you can see how cunningly the top and base ridges are off-centre, allowing it initially to be held vertically.
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Because of the lightness and grace of the movements, the martial art is cunningly disguised as dance.
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Cunningly, the machine buffers everything, allowing you to capture a complete song or show, even if you don't press 'record' as soon as it starts.
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She was only a simple soul and the Monsignor had easily tied her up in knots, cunningly casting serious doubt on her mental faculties.
GRACE
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Adeo ubique (as [6408] Scaliger writes of the Mahometan priests), tum gentium tum locorum, gens ista sacrorum ministra, vulgi secat spes, ad ea quae ipsi fingunt somnia, so cunningly can they gull the commons in all places and countries.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A casserole of dissimilar musical interests cunningly fused into one big bowl.
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And there wasn't a cunningly concealed cupboard to be seen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The play has not only sly wit, it is very cunningly constructed.
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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
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So our system cunningly presented everybody with a chance to be big, in one way or another.
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And in a carrier bag, cunningly at the back of a cupboard, a bumper harvest of old newspapers.
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They are cunningly manipulative narcissists devoid of consciences.
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By means of cunningly placed blankets the medical authorities did all that was humanly possible to mitigate the terrible jolting, but with all their care and ingenuity even the shortest journey in a cacolet was a nightmare.
With Our Army in Palestine
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This includes the freestanding birch plywood staircase, with cunningly concealed storage, and the sleek fitted cupboards in the master bedroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other gifts there were, an elephant of crystal, very cunningly wrought, and a monster which they call a giraffe, also of crystal, and draughts and chessmen, all finely made.
Heroes Every Child Should Know
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Adeo ubique (as [6408] Scaliger writes of the Mahometan priests), tum gentium tum locorum, gens ista sacrorum ministra, vulgi secat spes, ad ea quae ipsi fingunt somnia, so cunningly can they gull the commons in all places and countries.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Francie's is small, but mirrors cunningly exaggerate the space she has.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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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
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He knew that I had not approved of Lord Elgin's petulant removal of his viceroyal establishment from Montreal to Toronto, and cunningly resolved to draw me out before witnesses on the matter.
My Life as an Author
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Cunningly simple: two contestants, three rounds and a panel of three celebrity judges.
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Without balklines they cunningly collect the three balls near a cushion and ‘nurse’ them endlessly… click click… click click… scoring indefinitely.
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Murder, like as not, though 'tis all cunningly glozed in his journal.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure
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There was a phrase cunningly introduced and ambiguously worded, which seemed to mean that he had come by his wound in her cause.
Saracinesca
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And there wasn't a cunningly concealed cupboard to be seen.
Times, Sunday Times
