- cunning
- n1. craft, craftiness, guile, wiliness, slyness, foxiness, artfulness, subtlety, shrewdness; deceit, deception, duplicity, trickery.2. skill, skillfullness, dexterity, adroitness, ex-pertness, mastery, artistry; aptitude, facility, address, dispatch, ready skill, Inf. know-how; ingenuity, cleverness, talent, flair, genius, art, knack.adj3. ingenious, clever, resourceful, imagina- tive, inventive, creative.4. crafty, artful, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Sl. dumb or crazy like a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, astute, canny, sharp, knowing, Inf. cagey.5. insidious, guileful, disingenuous, scheming, plotting, designing, calculating, contriving; deceitful, tricky, crooked, dishonest, underhanded; shifty, slippery, smooth, slick.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.