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"Section C"

Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or
ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.


Over them Arachne high did lift

Her cunning web.

Spenser.


3. Crafty; sly; artful; designing;
deceitful.


They are resolved to be cunning; let others
run the hazard of being sincere.

South.


4. Pretty or pleasing; as, a
cunning little boy.
[Colloq. U.S.]
Barlett.


Syn. -- Cunning, Artful, Sly,
Wily, Crafty. -- These epithets agree in expressing
an aptitude for attaining some end by peculiar and secret means.
Cunning is usually low; as, a cunning trick.
Artful is more ingenious and inventive; as, an
artful device. Sly implies a turn for what is
double or concealed; as, sly humor; a sly evasion.
Crafty denotes a talent for dexterously deceiving; as, a
crafty manager. Wily describes a talent for the use
of stratagems; as, a wily politician. "Acunning man
often shows his dexterity in simply concealing. An artful
man goes further, and exerts his ingenuity in misleading. A
crafty man mingles cunning with art, and so shapes his
actions as to lull suspicions.


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