Meaning of каварны | Babel Free

Definitions

cunning, treacherous (who hides evil intentions under the outward benevolence)

Examples

“When he came home empty handed at night, he knew his father would curse him and thrash him first, and that when he was done the awful grandmother would do it all over again and improve on it; and that away in the night his starving mother would slip to him stealthily with any miserable scrap or crust she had been able to save for him by going hungry herself, notwithstanding she was often caught in that sort of treason and soundly beaten for it by her husband.”

“Дзяўчынка адважылася на роспачны, але такі самы каварны ўчынак.”

The girl dared to commit a desperate yet treacherous act.

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