Cunning can also mean slip past or sneaky.
Cunning can refer to the following:
- A Japanese comedy group known as Cunning (owarai)
- The Cunning folk, a type of folk magic user
Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“But chief to heedless flies the window proves
A constant death; where gloomily retired,
The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,
Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap
Of carcases in eager watch he sits,
O’erlooking all his waving snares around.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“One night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family’s heart. It was the Bottle Conjurer! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)