CUNNING

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Traducere în limba română

cunning I. adjectiv

1. şiret, şmecher, pişicher, mehenghi, ceapcin;

2. viclean, rafinat, perfid, înşelător, mincinos, de rea credinţă.

3. isteţ, iscusit, priceput, versat, dibaci, abil, îndemânatic; capabil, destoinic.

4. (amer. fam.) încântător, fermecător, adorabil, delicios, drăgălaş, graţios; atrăgător, ademenitor; nostim, picant.

cunning II. substantiv

1. şiretenie, perfidie, înşelătorite, rea credinţă.

2. iscusinţă, pricepere; dibăcie, abilitate, îndemânare; destoinicie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was, I am sorry to say, however, only another instance of his cunning, for within half an hour I heard of him again.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You cunning, cunning fiend!” was all that he could say.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had not yet learned their cunning or their strength.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was extremely curious to know from what part of the country I came, and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature; because the Yahoos (whom he saw I exactly resembled in my head, hands, and face, that were only visible), with some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The life of his body, and of every fibre of his body, the life that was the very substance of his body and that was apart from his own personal life, had yearned toward this light and urged his body toward it in the same way that the cunning chemistry of a plant urges it toward the sun.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

But he grew cunning.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“They must be cunning devils,” he exclaimed at last.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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