cunning

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.

Skillful, artful.

Esau was a cunning hunter.

a cunning workman

Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.

cunning work

Over them Arachne high did lift / Her cunning web.

Cute, appealing.

everybody gives something to the cunning little boy; his eyes are large and soft, and he wears a pointed hat, and tight breeches, and jacket

“I shan't mind that at all, I like the little house 'cause it's got a garden, and there's a cunning room with a three-cornered closet in it that I always wanted.[…]”

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.

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

The natural wit or instincts of an animal.

the cunning of the fox or hare

Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).

A surname.