| cunning |
| 1. adj. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Skillful, artful. | |
| 3. adj. (obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious. | |
| cunning work | |
| 4. adj. (US, colloquial dated) Cute, appealing. | |
| a cunning little boy | |
| 5. n. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity. | |
| 6. n. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit. | |
| 7. n. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful. | |
| 8. n. The natural wit or instincts of an animal. | |
| the cunning of the fox or hare | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge). | |
| sometimes |
| 1. adv. On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always. | |
| Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit. | |
| 2. adv. (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once. | |
| 3. adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime. | |
| manifested |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of manifest | |
| manifest |
| 1. adj. Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived. | |
| 2. adj. Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden. | |
| 3. adj. (rare, used with "of") Detected; convicted. | |
| 4. n. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship. | |
| 5. n. (computing) A file containing metadata describing other files. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. | |
| 7. v. To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit. | |
| His courage manifested itself through the look on his face. | |
| 8. v. To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse. | |
| As |
| 1. n. plural of A | |
| She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
| 2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
| You’re not as tall as I am. | |
| It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
| 3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
| The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
| The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
| He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
| 4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
| 5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
| Do as I say! | |
| I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
| As you wish, my lord! | |
| 6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
| As I came in, she flew. | |
| 7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
| He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
| 8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
| As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
| 9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
| As it’s too late, I quit. | |
| 10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
| She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
| It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
| 11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
| 12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
| 13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
| 14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
| 15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
| 16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
| You are not as tall as me. | |
| They're big as houses. | |
| 17. prep. In the role of. | |
| What is your opinion as a parent? | |
| 18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
| 19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
| 20. n. plural of a | |
| trickery |
| 1. n. Deception or underhanded behavior. | |
| 2. n. The art of dressing up; imposture. | |
| 3. n. Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems. | |
| 4. n. An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc. | |
