cunninger

English

Adjective

cunninger

1. comparative form of cunning: more cunning
   • 1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons‎^[1]:

     Man is made in the image and likeness of God, therefore he is a sacred creature; a creature, not merely an animal, and the highest of all animals, only cunninger than all animals, more highly organised, more delicately formed than all animals; but something beyond an animal.

   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Phœnix”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 160:

     Call ye that a Society, [...] Where each, isolated, regardless of his neighbour, turned against his neighbour, clutches what he can get, and cries "Mine!" and calls it Peace, because, in the cut-purse and cut-throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed?

   • 1914, George W. Cable, Gideon's Band‎^[2]:

     He had always trusted Lucian for the cunninger insight and did it now though Lucian lay in the bishop's arms limp and senseless.