Both Uses of
cunning
in
Animal Farm
- That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence.
p. 58.1 *cunning = cleverness
- The pigs were in ecstasies over Napoleon's cunning.
p. 99.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.