cunningest

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cunningest

  1. superlative form of cunning: most cunning
    • 1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858[1]:
      The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the Commonwealth.
    • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain[2]:
      The cunningest hunter is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other.
    • 1912, Kate Langley Bosher, The Man in Lonely Land[3]:
      They are the cunningest little ears you've ever saw.