CUNNINGLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an artful manner

Example:

had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?

Synonyms:

artfully; craftily; cunningly; foxily; knavishly; slyly; trickily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

cunning (marked by skill in deception)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an attractive manner

Example:

how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure

Synonyms:

cunningly; cutely

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

cunning (attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness)

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Context examples:

Brothers! As commanded, we journeyed on the trail of Keesh, and cunningly we journeyed, so that he might not know. And midway of the first day he picked up with a great he-bear. It was a very great bear. "None greater," Bawn corroborated, and went on himself.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"He covered his tracks cunningly."