Meaning of CRAFTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'kraftee
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | artful, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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