佞ねい智ち

noun

craftiness; cunning; wily intelligence

Rare, literary noun for cunning or crafty intelligence, often with a negative connotation. Not used in everyday speech; encountered mainly in classical or formal texts.

• 彼かれの佞ねい智ちには誰だれもかなわないと、古こ老ろうは語かたった。

  The old man said that no one could match his craftiness.