crafty

• They are crafty, that is all,--and half the cadets at Putnam Hall know it To this neither of the girls would reply. —  The Rover Boys on the River The Search for the Missing Houseboat
• He was quite himself again now--crafty, prudent, reticent; about as unpromising a gentleman to "get on with," far less get the better of in a bargain, as a Greek Jew. —  Bred in the Bone
• Moral.--The inexperienced are never so much in danger of being deceived and hurt as when they think themselves a match for the crafty, and suppose that they have penetrated their designs and seen through all their stratagems. —  Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
• He was the personified spirit of the place--crafty, designing, relentless Bob Hoyt, the foreman, shambled into Mick's lair at the time of day when the lights were burning and smoking on the circling shelf. —  Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman
• Quite lucid and crafty, actually. —  Ryan Tomayko

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