| 单词 | cunning |
| 释义 | cunning —cunningly, adv. —cunningness, n. /kun"ing/, n. 1. skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile. 2. adeptness in performance; dexterity: The weaver's hand lost its cunning. adj. 3. showing or made with ingenuity. 4. artfully subtle or shrewd; crafty; sly. 5. Informal. charmingly cute or appealing: a cunning little baby. 6. Archaic. skillful; expert. v. 7. Obs. ppr. of can1. [1275-1325; (n.) ME; OE cunnung, equiv. to cunn(an) to know (see CAN1) + -ung -ING1; (adj., v.) ME, prp. of cunnan to know (see CAN1, -ING2)] Syn. 1. shrewdness, artfulness, wiliness, trickery, finesse, intrigue, slyness, deception. CUNNING, ARTIFICE, CRAFT imply an inclination toward deceit, slyness, and trickery. CUNNING implies a shrewd, often instinctive skill in concealing or disguising the real purposes of one's actions: not intelligence but a low kind of cunning. An ARTIFICE is a clever, unscrupulous ruse, used to mislead others: a successful artifice to conceal one's motives. CRAFT suggests underhand methods and the use of deceptive devices and tricks to attain one's ends: craft and deceitfulness in every act. 2. adroitness. 3. ingenious, skillful. 4. artful, wily, tricky, foxy. |
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