Definitions For Cunning

noun

  • Crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
  • Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

adjective

  • Showing inventiveness and skill
  • Marked by skill in deception
  • Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

verb

  • Cleverness or skill especially at tricking people in order to get something

Is Cunning a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
16

The word Cunning is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Cunning in a Sentence

  • She was cunning enough to fool me.
  • A cunning, underhanded plan to win the election by preying on people's fears and prejudices
  • He may be a fraud, but you have to admire his cunning.
  • The cunning with which Tom Sawyer was able to get others to whitewash the fence for him

Synonyms for Cunning

Antonyms for Cunning

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