Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
- adj. Chiefly British Skillful; dexterous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Possessing or displaying skill, especially manual skill or art: as, “crafty work,”
- Skilful in devising and executing schemes, especially secret or evil schemes; cunning; artful; wily; sly.
- Characterized by or springing from craft or deceit: as, crafty wiles. Synonyms Artful, Sly, etc. (see
cunning ), insidious, designing, deceitful, plotting, scheming.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
- adj. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
- adj. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
- adj. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
- adj. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by skill in deception
Etymologies
- From Old English cræftig. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English cræftig, strong, skillful, from cræft, skill. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Characters often impress readers by solving problems in crafty and unexpected ways.”
“Oh ... and buy that 6 flat on the block, duplex both sides and turn the first floor into offices and a studio for a certain crafty chick.”
“It's too bad that Su used the word crafty to attack Hsieh.”
“This is a Flickr badge showing items in a set called crafty goodness.”
“Sharp features and slitted eyes lent him an expression crafty as a rat's.”
“I think a more likely interpretation of what Obama meant to say was "not artful" (artful is defined as crafty, cunningly clever at getting what one wants).”
“But I am not what you would call the crafty sort. prayers for blowouts » Blog Archive » The Schnoz Report: Championship Weekend”
“Devereux, I have paid the forfeit of my errors with a terrible interest: when my motives have been pure, men have seen a fault in the conduct, and calumniated the motives; when my conduct has been blameless, men have remembered its former errors, and asserted that its present goodness only arose from some sinister intention: thus I have been termed crafty, when I was in reality rash, and that was called the inconsistency of interest which in reality was the inconsistency of passion.”
“Jaws made Roy Scheider, previously a little-noticed character actor, a star; it made Richard Dreyfuss, an annoying, neurotic, nerdy sort of fellow, a star; and it made the brilliant Robert Shaw into the kind of crafty old codger the American public could no longer take for granted, even though he wouldn't last much longer.”
“There must be millions of people who can make incredible "crafty" things out there in the world that would make my scarves look Neanderthal, but it's the "making" that's the fun for me.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crafty’.
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Linda(G4)
Accurate, address, afford, alert, analyze, ancestor, annual, apparent, arena, arrest, ascend, assist and 126 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 134 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Ideas
brainchild, inspiration, muse, genius, eureka, discovery, intellectual prop..., intangible asset, goodwill, patented, savant, brainiac and 76 more...
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Skilled
precise, dexterous, expert, crafty, adept, proficient, agile, artful, qualified, capable, talented, facile and 1 more...
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Character Traits
This is a list of adjectives used by writers to help develop characters.
guileful, obsessed, brilliant, bright, naive, streetwise, streetsmart, ruthless, cruel, foolish, obsessive, introspective and 19 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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♏ Mischievous tidbits ♏
Just those skew words wherein craftiness propagates.
shenanigans, malicious, feisty, rebellious, hullabaloo, shifty-eyed, crafty, mischievous, ragamuffins, goons
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What Do You Mean ?
U Gotta Know These.......
falter, ruddy, flounder, pallid, fumble, founder, labile, titular, tacit, pragmatic, fatalism, jaded and 112 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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GRE
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, abrasive, abridge, abstain, acme, activism, adhere, admonish and 195 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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