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Webster 1913 Edition


Crafty

Craft′y

(kr?ft′?)
,
Adj.
[AS.
cræftig
.]
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.
Syn. – Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See
Cunning
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Crafty

CRAFTY

,
Adj.
1.
Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5.
2.
Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit.
Being crafty, I caught you with guile. 2 Corinthians 12.

Definition 2024


crafty

crafty

English

Adjective

crafty (comparative craftier, superlative craftiest)

  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
  2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
  3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
      Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.

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  • See also Wikisaurus:wily

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