(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?
Javanese
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java.
(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Java.
Example Sentences:
(1) Genetic distance analyses by both cluster and principal components models were performed between Koreans and eight other populations (Koreans in China, Japanese, Han Chinese, Mongolians, Zhuangs, Malays, Javanese, and Soviet Asians) on the basis of 47 alleles controlled by 15 polymorphic loci.
(2) The frequency of deletional alpha-thalassaemia in a Javanese population sample (n = 103) was investigated at three restriction sites of the alpha-globin gene (BamHI, BglII and RsaI).
(3) The relative distributions of 480 DR2-related DR,DQ haplotypes have been determined in Australian Aborigines, Papua New Guinean Highlanders, coastal Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians, Javanese, and Southern and Northern Chinese.
(4) The association of magical and bio-medical knowledge allows Javanese to interpret traditional and bio-medical cures as components of a unified health care system.
(5) Comparison of Javanese medical, religious and political systems suggests that the structural uniformity of cultural domains derives from the hierarchical organization of cultural knowledge and that the study of traditional medicine and medical pluralism can not be undertaken apart from that of world view.
(6) The Javanese group, however, showed 90% anterior position of the upper lip and 93% of the lower lip to this line.
(7) The paper begins with an example drawn from Javanese mystical practices which are based upon the concept of the unity of the human and natural orders.
(8) The results also show that although there is a dramatic shift towards self-choice marriages, it is occurring within the context of historical and institutional factors specific to Javanese society.
(9) Finally, close to death, I was found by a Javanese girl who took me to her village.
(10) These findings support the conclusion that Javanese thin-tailed sheep have a high innate resistance to F. gigantica.
(11) Less musically sophisticated Ss' judgments were better for Western than Javanese patterns.
(12) The Muslim leader Amien Rais compared Suharto in his last years to a Javanese king who thinks that "if he's going to collapse, he'll bring down the whole country too".
(13) Such nepotism was not essential for the Suharto regime; rather, it reflected his adoption of a ruling style increasingly akin to that of a traditional Javanese king.
(14) Three breeds of Javanese sheep are described briefly and data suggesting the segregation of a gene with large effect on ovulation rate and litter size are presented.
(15) Javanese beef rendang Last year, I made eight main courses for my birthday party – all Indonesian.
(16) Others who have been refused entry include Daara J Family, a Senegalese hip-hop outfit, who are BBC Radio 3 world music award winners, a Javanese artist and teacher, a Brazilian theatre company, South Africa's "edgiest theatre director" and a Palestinian poet.
(17) The footage, obtained by the ABC, seems to have been shot from inside a lifeboat of the same type that recently landed on a Javanese beach.
(18) I feel decidedly smug … because everything I spoke about in my speech on this particular topic seems to have been proven completely true.” Javanese feminist Dea Basori has been attempting to collect and share images depicting Indonesian women in history, to explore and educate people about evolutions in that country’s values.
(19) One component that was especially plentiful in some Javanese and South American isolates was identified as the murine toxin.
(20) Twenty-five percent of blood films from natives and 31% from Javanese were positive for falciparum malaria; of these, the rate of gametocytemia was 21% for natives, and 42% for the Javanese transmigrants (P less than 0.001).