cunning

Adjective

• showing inventiveness and skill
  • a clever gadget
    
  • the cunning maneuvers leading to his success
    
  • an ingenious solution to the problem
    

• marked by skill in deception
  • cunning men often pass for wise
    
  • deep political machinations
    
  • a foxy scheme
    
  • a slick evasive answer
    
  • sly as a fox
    
  • tricky Dick
    
  • a wily old attorney
    

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
  • a cute kid with pigtails
    
  • a cute little apartment
    
  • cunning kittens
    
  • a cunning baby
    

Noun

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  clever , ingenious , cute , craft , craftiness , foxiness , guile , slyness , wiliness