Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.
Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
A surname.
From Middle English cunning, kunning, konnyng, alteration of earlier Middle English cunninde, kunnende, cunnand, from Old English cunnende, present participle of cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”),...
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The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.