(a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
(a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
(a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
(a.) Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
(a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(2) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(3) "They are alert, cunning and devious individuals who have current knowledge of investigative methods and techniques which may be used against them," said an internal report.
(4) 3.16pm BST Myners explains that his solution is a PLC-plus board -- a highly qualified board, holding the executive to account, complemented by a national council who is charged with checking that the board is doing what it should ( acting like shareholders, effectively ) He denies that it's a cunning plan to get his friends onto the Co-op board.
(5) The SNP minority government at Holyrood after 2007 survived from day to day by cunning deals that played the other parties off against one another.
(6) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
(7) The capacity of urea-N synthesis (CUNS), the galactose elimination capacity (GEC) and the antipyrine clearance (APC) were measured in rats immediately after 30, 70 and 90% partial hepatectomy and after sham operation.
(8) 1980 was his best year for opera: the Cologne company (whose music director, John Pritchard, became a staunch supporter) brought Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Glasgow provided Berg's Wozzeck and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and the festival itself produced a distinguished world premiere in Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
(9) In it she explains how she scratched the graffito "My French teacher is a cun-" on a door, and was stopped just as she finished that crucial "t".)
(10) Putin is a cunning negotiator with the skills of a KGB colonel, varying between brute force, charm and obfuscation.
(11) He added that the core message from Pyongyang was that South Korea’s National Intelligence Service was using the reptiles “as part of a ‘cunning scheme’ to challenge our unity”.
(12) It needed stamina, ice-in-the-veins bravery, cunning, cool judgment and brute determination.
(13) So much so that he ends the press conference with the point, and has a little smile at his own cunning.
(14) Running at the visiting defence, N’Doye produced a cunning disguise pass that the Croat Jelavic took in his stride and dispatched past Brad Guzan via a looping deflection.
(15) Only Eurovision could offer up such a song: a plea for ethnic tolerance, cunningly disguised as an Abba track with the offcuts from a pantomime.
(16) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(17) Steve Hilton's cunning plan to abolish all consumer, employment and maternity rights got a dusty answer, while his green passions are at least tolerated.
(18) Former schemes were tiny but this one is mammoth, the debt kept cunningly off the public borrowing books (which the Office for National Statistics allowed; it's said the Treasury was amazed).
(19) It turned out that the Square Mile is cunningly designed so as to have almost nowhere for such groups to gather, so the protesters ended up by the skirts of St Paul's.
(20) Undercover underwear What do you do when you develop a cunning remote-monitoring system to track soldiers’ performance in the field, but they don’t want to wear a clumsy chest strap, or forget to wear the wristband?
Insinuate
Definition:
(v. t.) To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
(v. t.) To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill.
(v. t.) To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?
(v. t.) To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
(v. i.) To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(2) Dr Abby Innes European Institute, LSE • If David Cameron really wants to clean out the Augean stables of corruption, he should not use international summits to insinuate that corruption is only a foreign problem.
(3) It took aim at the law’s insinuation of a parasitic relationship between media and aggregators: “Google News creates real value for these publications by driving people to their website, which in turn helps generate advertising revenues.” The shutdown affects only Google News in Spain – news stories from Spain can still be accessed through the company’s main search engine.
(4) When state television broadcast the Oscar-winning Polish film Ida , the screening was preceded by a 12-minute warning to viewers of alleged historical inaccuracies “The ‘politics of memory’ policy appears to work largely by insinuation,” said Davies.
(5) Subsequently, small lymphocytes migrated through the basal lamina and insinuated themselves between the differentiated epithelial cells.
(6) Much of the story, however, is doubtful; perhaps now, with Carr's death, it may be possible to disentangle some of the strands of insinuation, legal spin and lies.
(7) The sign, which was hung on an electrical line, revealed the executive’s home address and insinuated that she was a prostitute who gave her services for free to Milan’s top transportation official.
(8) In addition to insinuating that Obama, a Christian, is secretly a Muslim, Trump has also falsely stated the president was born in Kenya when he was, in fact, born in Hawaii.
(9) Here lies our greatest risk, one insufficiently appreciated by those who so blithely accept the tentacles of corporation, press and state insinuating their way into the private sphere.
(10) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(11) March 26, 2016 In August 2015 Trump insinuated that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions in the first primary debate because she was menstruating.
(12) It is thus able not only to export more Coca-Cola, it is free to export more of the diseases of western culture, insinuating the brand with youngsters.
(13) Yesterday, former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller published a column which, while partially praising Manning's leaks, insinuated that the claims Manning made in his in-court statement about his motives and actions may be unreliable because they are not found in the logs of the chats in which he engaged with the government informant.
(14) Typical histologic features included a dense, collagenous stroma; prominent, dilated, thin-walled vessels; muscular hyperplasia of small arteries; keloidal change; myxoid change; and fibrous tissue insinuation into the muscularis propria of the bowel.
(15) The man has a record; my insinuations are hardly far-fetched.
(16) In some of the fiercest exchanges of the 2016 presidential race so far, Clinton accused her challenger of “artfully smearing” her with “innuendo and insinuation” by suggesting payments from Wall Street were a sign of corruption.
(17) TransCanada has also spent enormous amounts of PR money putting ads on Oprah's network and the like, in an attempt to rebrand itself as " ethical oil ", insinuating that the Keystone XL pipeline would ensure America receives its oil from friendly Canada, instead of unstable regions elsewhere in the world.
(18) And, if that happens, many of the controversies which raged in 2009 – when her crushing world 800m title triumph was overshadowed by accusations and insinuations about her gender – will again swirl around Rio like a tornado.
(19) Nerves insinuate between the muscle cells and occur all along the internal face of the muscular layer, sometimes in close contact with the syncytium.
(20) At one point in the press conference, Clinton said about half of the 60,000 emails on her server were private, and she insinuated that they had been deleted, saying “I had no reason to save them, but that was my decision, because the federal guidelines are clear and the State Department request was clear.” “I chose not to keep my private personal emails,” she said.