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Crafty   /krˈæfti/   Listen
Crafty

adjective
1.
Marked by skill in deception.  Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily.  "Deep political machinations" , "A foxy scheme" , "A slick evasive answer" , "Sly as a fox" , "Tricky Dick" , "A wily old attorney"



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"Crafty" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Randolph Mason from above, the expression in repose was crafty and cynical; viewed from below upward, it was savage and vindictive, almost brutal; while from the front, if looked squarely in the face, the stranger was fascinated by the animation of the man and at ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... workman, the crafty past all praise, The man who chained the Minotaur, the man who built the Maze. His young son is beside him and the boy's face is a light, A light of dawn and wonder ...
— Young Adventure - A Book of Poems • Stephen Vincent Benet

... thought, as Heaven was his witness, of deriving one jot or one tittle of advantage for himself? Flavia's! Always Flavia's! And she had penned this! she had planned this! She had consigned him to this, playing to its crafty end the farce that had ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman

... autumn weather has set in (you wouldn't have got a shot in September, Herr Davies; I remember your asking about them when I saw you last). And even now it's early for amateurs. In hard winter weather a child can pick them up; but they're wild still, and want crafty hunting. You want a local punt, and above all a local man (you could stow him in your fo'c'sle), and to go to work seriously. Now, if you really wish for sport, I could help you. I could ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers

... When Juechziger's crafty eye saw that the arrow he had thus been pointing was, so to speak, ready to be loosed from the bow, he adroitly changed the subject of conversation to something that lay ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous


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