About The Word Crafty
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Crafty
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What's The Definition Of Crafty?
[adj] marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Crafty: artful | cunning | dodgy | foxy | guileful | knavish | slick | sly | tricksy | tricky | wily Related Terms | Find terms related to Crafty: acute | adroit | ambidextrous | arch | artful | astute | Byzantine | cagey | calculating | canny | chiseling | clever | collusive | covinous | crooked | cunning | cute | deceitful | deep | deep-laid | designing | devious | diplomatic | dishonest | disingenuous | double | double-dealing | double-faced | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | duplicitous | faithless | false | falsehearted | false-principled | fawning | feline | finagling | forsworn | foxy | fraudulent | furtive | guileful | indirect | ingenious | insidious | insincere | inventive | keen | knowing | Machiavellian | Machiavellic | pawky | perfidious | perjured | plotting | politic | ready | resourceful | scheming | serpentine | sharp | shifty | shrewd | slick | slippery | sly | smooth | snaky | sneaky | sophistical | stealthy | strategic | subtile | subtle | supple | surreptitious | tactical | tidy | treacherous | trickish | tricksy | tricky | two-faced | uncandid | underhand | underhanded | unfrank | unsincere | untruthful | vulpine | wary | wily See Also | Crafty In Webster's Dictionary \Craft"y\ (kr?ft"?), a. [AS. cr?ftig.]
1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill;
dexterous. [Obs.] ``Crafty work.'' --Piers Plowman.
2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
A noble crafty man of trees. --Wyclif.
3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft;
cunning; wily. ``A pair of crafty knaves.'' --Shak.
With anxious care and crafty wiles. --J. Baillie.
Syn: Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly;
fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See {Cunning}.
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