conniving

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Rove did not graduate from college nor has he aquired any true wisdon / knowledge along his "career path" … he has only gathered more cunning, conniving, and cruelty along the way.

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  • I was a conniving, ambitious snot, and capable of murder. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • Our defiant, conniving, artfully tousled governor with a penchant for theatrics and language that seems even more out of place when printed on oversize poster board for the Illinois legislature to peruse. —  VQR
  • Who would have imagined that they would put the fate of the nation in the hands of a group of lying, conniving, rats like "curveball," Ahmad Chalabi and the INC? —  msnbc.com: Community
  • He is brutal, conniving, and haunted; he plays both degraded stable boy and wealthy gentleman with ease. —  BrontëBlog
  • Starred 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards as the conniving, cane-thrashing, horse-betting (and often drunken) Headmaster of Chiselbury School ( 'For the Sons of Gentlefolk') with his assistants Mr. Oliver Pettigrew, the science master, played by Arthur Howard who was also his long suffering assistant headmaster ... a twittering, hand-wringing bag of nerves. —  Liberal England
 

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