Cunning vs. Manipulative — What's the Difference?

Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.

Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate.

Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.

Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in mathematics.

Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute

Using manipulation purposefully.

Skill in deception; guile.

Tending to manipulate.

Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.

(pejorative) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

(mathematics) A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.

(obsolete) Skillful, artful.

Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.

(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.

Prone to attempt to influence others by devious or subtle psychological means, in order to induce them to do what one wants.

Cute, appealing.

Any object given to children to encourage them to learn by manipulating physical objects; applied especially to solid objects of varying geometrical shape that can be fit together to form larger aggregates.

Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.

Skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage;

Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.

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.

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

Knowing; skillful; dexterous.

Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.

Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.

Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

Shrewdness in deception;

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Drafty artfulness (especially in deception)

Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;

Marked by skill in deception;

Showing inventiveness and skill;