Betekenis van:
cunning

cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • uitgekookt; gewiekst; slim en niet helemaal betrouwbaar; gewiekst
  • attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
"cunning kittens"
"a cunning baby"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • leuk
  • attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
"cunning kittens"
"a cunning baby"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • getuigend van vernuft
  • attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
"cunning kittens"
"a cunning baby"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • niet openlijk; geniepig
  • marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • listig, doortrapt
  • marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • ondeugend en grappig; guitig; guitig; schelms; schalks
  • marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • grappig
  • attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
"cunning kittens"
"a cunning baby"

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cunning
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • showing inventiveness and skill
    "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"

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    cunning
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • getruct
    • marked by skill in deception
    "cunning men often pass for wise"

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    cunning
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • het listig zijn
    • crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

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    cunning
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • raffinement
    • crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

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    cunning
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • geslepenheid
    • crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

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    cunning
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

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      1. She's very cunning.
      2. He's cunning and manipulative.
      3. She is very cunning.
      4. She's a cunning linguist.
      5. Those cunning bastards!
      6. The potter's lost his cunning.
      7. That's just how cunning North Korea (and China) is.
      8. It is said that the fox is more cunning than any other animal.
      9. People say that the fox is more cunning than other animals.
      10. He makes believe that he is a practical statesman, but in really he is a cunning politician.
      11. The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.
      12. "The Parisian police," he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand."
      13. Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.