English-Thai Dictionary

cunning

ADJ ซึ่ง ฉลาด หลักแหลม  shrewd clever skillful sueng-cha-lad-lak-laem

 

cunning

ADJ น่ารัก (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ  ซึ่ง ดึงดูด  cute na-rak

 

cunning

ADJ เจ้าเล่ห์  ฉลาดแกมโกง  sly crafty tricky jao-lea

 

cunning

N ความ เจ้าเล่ห์  kwam-jao-lea

 

cunning

N ผลงาน ที่ มีฝีมือ  pon-ngan-ti-me-fe-mue

 

cunningly

ADV อย่าง เจ้าเล่ห์  อย่าง ฉลาดแกมโกง  slyly cunningly yang-jao-lea

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUNNING

a.[G. See Can. ] 1. Knowing; skillful; experienced; well-instructed. It is applied to all kinds of knowledge, but generally and appropriately, to the skill and dexterity of artificers, or the knowledge acquired by experience.
Esau was a cunning hunter. Genesis 25:27.
I will take away the cunning artificer. Isaiah 3:3.
A cunning workman. Exodus 38:23.
2. Wrought with skill; curious; ingenious.
With cherubs of cunning work shalt thou make them. Exodus 26:1.
[The foregoing senses occur frequently in our version of the scriptures, but are nearly or quite obsolete. ]
3. Artful; shrewd; sly; crafty; astute; designing; as a cunning fellow.
They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
In this sense, the purpose or final end of the person may not be illaudalbe; but cunning implies the use of artifice to accomplish the purpose, rather than open, candid, or direct means. Hence,
4. Deceitful; trickish; employing stratagems for a bad purpose.
5. Assumed with subtilty; artful.
Accounting his integrity to be but a cunning face of falsehood.

 

CUNNING

n. 1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm 137:5.
2. Art; artifice; artfulness; craft; shrewdness; the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose. Hence in a bad sense, deceitfulness or deceit; fraudulent skill or dexterity.
Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.

 

CUNNINGLY

adv. Artfully; craftily; with subtilty; with fraudulent contrivance. We have not followed cunningly devised fables. 2 Peter 1:16.

 

CUNNINGMAN

n.A man who pretends to tell fortunes, or teach how to recover stolen or lost goods.

 

CUNNINGNESS

n.Cunning; craft; deceitfulness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CUNNING

Cun "ning (kn "nng ), a. Etym: [AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st Con, Can. ]

 

1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman. " Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

 

2. Wrought with, or exibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. Spenser.

 

3. Crafty; sly; artful; designid; 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. The young may be cunning, but the experienced only can be crafty. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. Wiliness is a species of cunning or craft applicable only to cases of attack and defence. " Crabb.

 

CUNNING

Cun "ning, n. Etym: [AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning, a.]

 

1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [Archaic ] Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. Chapman.

 

2. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft. Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom. Locke. We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. Bacon.

 

CUNNINGLY

CUNNINGLY Cun "ning *ly (kn "nng-l ), adv.

 

Defn: In a cunning manner; with cunning.

 

CUNNINGMAN

CUNNINGMAN Cun "ning *man ` (-mn `), n.

 

Defn: A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs. ] Hudibras.

 

CUNNINGNESS

CUNNINGNESS Cun "ning *ness, n.

 

Defn: Quality of being cunning; craft.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cunning

cun ning |ˈkəniNG ˈkənɪŋ | ▶adjective 1 having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion: a cunning look came into his eyes. • ingenious: plants have evolved cunning defenses. 2 attractive; quaint: the baby will look cunning in that pink print. ▶noun skill in achieving one's ends by deceit: a statesman to whom cunning had come as second nature. • ingenuity: what resources of energy and cunning it took just to survive. DERIVATIVES cun ning ly adverb, cun ning ness noun ORIGIN Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse kunnandi ‘knowledge, ’ from kunna ‘know ’ (related to can 1 ), or perhaps from Middle English cunne, an obsolete variant of can 1. The original sense was ‘(possessing ) erudition or skill ’ and had no implication of deceit; the sense ‘deceitfulness ’ dates from late Middle English.

 

Cunningham, Merce

Cun ning ham, Merce |ˈkəniNGˌham ˈkənɪŋhæm | (1919 –2009 ), US dancer and choreographer. As a dancer with the Martha Graham dance company 1939 –45, he experimented with choreography and collaborated with composer John Cage in solo performances in 1944. He formed his own company in 1953.

 

Oxford Dictionary

cunning

cun |ning |ˈkʌnɪŋ | ▶adjective 1 having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion: a cunning look came into his eyes. • ingenious: plants have evolved cunning defences. 2 N. Amer. attractive or quaint: Baby will look too cunning for anything in that pink print. ▶noun [ mass noun ] skill in achieving one's ends by deceit: a statesman to whom cunning had come as second nature. • ingenuity: what resources of energy and cunning it took just to survive. DERIVATIVES cunningly adverb, cunningness noun ORIGIN Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse kunnandi ‘knowledge ’, from kunna ‘know ’ (related to can 1 ), or perhaps from Middle English cunne, an obsolete variant of can 1. The original sense was ‘(possessing ) erudition or skill ’ and had no implication of deceit; the sense ‘deceitfulness ’ dates from late Middle English.

 

Cunningham, Merce

Cunningham, Merce |ˈkʌnɪŋəm | (1919 –2009 ), American dancer and choreographer. A dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company (1939 –45 ), he formed his own company in 1953 and explored new abstract directions for modern dance.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

cunning

cunning adjective a cunning scheme: crafty, wily, artful, guileful, devious, sly, scheming, designing, calculating, Machiavellian; shrewd, astute, clever, canny; deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, foxy; archaic subtle. ANTONYMS honest. ▶noun his political cunning: guile, craftiness, deviousness, slyness, trickery, duplicity; shrewdness, astuteness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cunning

cunning adjective he's been very cunning | a cunning scheme: crafty, wily, artful, guileful, devious, sly, knowing, scheming, designing, tricky, slippery, slick, manipulative, Machiavellian, deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous; shrewd, astute, clever, canny, sharp, sharp-witted, skilful, ingenious, resourceful, inventive, imaginative, deft, adroit, dexterous; informal foxy, savvy, fiendish, sneaky; Brit. informal fly; Scottish & N. English informal pawky; S. African informal slim; archaic subtle; rare vulpine, carny. ANTONYMS honest, guileless, naive. ▶noun you have to admire his political cunning: guile, craftiness, wiliness, artfulness, deviousness, slyness, trickery, trickiness, duplicity, deceitfulness, deceit, chicanery; shrewdness, astuteness, cleverness, canniness, sharpness, ingenuity, resourcefulness, inventiveness, imagination, deftness, adroitness, dexterity, dexterousness; wiles, ploys, schemes, stratagems, tactics, manoeuvres, subterfuges, tricks, ruses; informal foxiness. ANTONYMS guilelessness, naivety.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cunning

cun ning /kʌ́nɪŋ / (! -nn-は /n /) 〖「知っていること 」＞「ずる賢い 」〗形容詞 more ～; most ～/～er ; ～est 1 〈人 態度 行動などが 〉ずるい , 悪賢い , 狡猾 （こうかつ ）な (→clever ); 〈装置 仕組み 計画などが 〉巧妙な ▸ a cunning plan [trick ]巧妙な計画 [わな ]2 ｟米 くだけて やや古 ｠〈衣服などが 〉魅力的な ; 〈赤ん坊などが 〉かわいらしい .3 ｟古 ｠精巧な ; 器用な .名詞 U 1 ずるさ , 悪賢さ , 狡猾さ .2 ｟古 ｠巧妙さ , 器用さ , 手腕 (skill ) (!「試験でカンニングする 」はcheat in [on ] an examinationで, ╳do cunningとしない ) .～ly 副詞 ずるく, 悪賢く, 巧妙に .