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Definitions of crafty

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
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 Dik a wily old attorney
Relating to or characterized by craft or skill dexterous
Possessing dexterity skilled skillful
Skillful at deceiving others characterized by craft cunning wily
Cunning deceitful artful wily
Craftily
Craftiness
Having craft or skill cunning deceitful
Cunning artful dexterous
Skilful in deceiving cunning
Artful cunning

Antonyms for crafty

Weak-minded, aboveboard, honest, open, innocent, unbiased, brainless, outspoken, simpleminded, trustful, unintelligent, unvarnished, genuine, oafish, childlike, dumb, candid, gormless, direct, public, unpretending, impressionable, unprejudiced, sincere, patent, plainspoken, plain, dim, dopey, lunkheaded, dorky, slow-witted, unworldly, brain dead, imbecile, unsophisticated, unpretentious, straightforward, dense, softheaded, stolid, slow, airheaded, real, dunderheaded, artless, ingenuous, simple, blind, vacuous, idiotic, truthful, trusting, Chuckleheaded, unsmart, unconcealed, lamebrain, opaque, obtuse, bonehead, mindless, forthright, bubbleheaded, half-witted, thick-witted, guileless, Undesigning, unaffected, fatuous, frank, doltish, unstudied, naive, birdbrained, boneheaded, dull, unreserved, natural, dim-witted, transparent, empty-headed, witless, soft, impartial, thick, thickheaded, undiscerning, obvious, unforced, shallow, true.

Quotes of crafty

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day Get paid for that as well – Eric Bristow
The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper so I brought it home wore it on TV and the name just stuck – Eric Bristow
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone – Camille Claudel
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty – James Madison
It's easier to play a dim character for me because I have a natural bent for comedy It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty so I would have to go outside for a source of origin I think of myself as pretty dim – Stephen Root
In those days reputation was a big thing If you could win a game before you went out win it That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things You got very crafty at the game – Tommy Smith
The crafty person is always in danger and when they think they walk in the dark all their pretenses are transparent – John Tillotson

Usage examples for crafty

“ He was playing a crafty game for he preferred to get the meat without fighting if possible and my story that soldiers were coming had given him food for reflection ” – An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
“ And crafty as a fox ” – Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
“ I must be getting terribly secret and crafty she thought with some surprise ” – Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther
“ Nay you may think my love was a crafty love And call it cunning do and if you will If Heaven be pleased that you should use me ill Why then you must ” – The American Union Speaker by John D. Philbrick
“ He was opposed to Captain Turner of the second and Turner was a crafty end ” – Left Tackle Thayer by Ralph Henry Barbour
“ He was still thirty miles from home hungry and thirsty and pursued by crafty enemies who might even then be watching him from some secret covert ” – Frank Among The Rancheros by Harry Castlemon
“ He was a wild creature of blood and foam crafty a player like herself a maker of money a savage in sacking and almost nothing to her now ” – Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens
“ But to think that his life his mind his soul all that was dear to him and all that he was dear to should ever lie at the command of the trigger of this hard crafty vain and unimportant fellow ” – Black Jack by Max Brand
“ The duke before all those which had or charge Or office high the letter read and said See how the goodness of the Lord foreshows The secret purpose of our crafty foes ” – Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso
“ With the Great Marsh as a safe refuge in his crafty mind he passed by the next sundown back of Pont du Sable slept again in a hedge and by dawn had reached the marsh ” – A Village of Vagabonds by F. Berkeley Smith
“ But when they stealthily stole up to the seat of that crafty chief they found that those damned Dutchmen had caused Powhatan to abandon his new house at Werowocomoco and to carry away all his corn and provisions ” – Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009
“ I crave pardon of you all said Marie as she came back and the rustle of her gown again passed them for not knowing how to deal with the crafty of this world ” – The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
“ A crafty look came over his face ” – The Master Mystery by Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
“ They are very much deceived having let the crafty deceptive hypocritical leaders of the Right Wing fool them badly ” – The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto
“ We both were victims of a crafty scheme To break our hearts asunder ” – The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by H. L. Gordon
“ Once he endeavoured to be cunning writing to Spalatinus he enclosed a crafty letter saying that it was believed without foundation that he was at Wartburg ” – Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
“ I reckon you ought to be able to guess what they said said Duncan with a crafty smile ” – The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer
“ For months I've marked his crafty dodge To bring dishonour to Sir Stodge ” – The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. Dennis
“ The horses were wild as range horses generally are but Sinyela was crafty ” – The-Grand-Canyon-of-Arizona-how-to-see-it by James, George Wharton
“ Massive cabinets and cupboards cunningly devised by crafty hands in by gone days look out from dusky corners the hideous faces carved upon them wreathed in their eternal ghastly smiles ” – Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

Rhymes for crafty

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