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- clever, especially in a dishonest or secret way: I have some crafty ideas for getting around the regulations. She was a crafty old woman.
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clever, especially in a dishonest or secret way: I have some crafty ideas for getting around the regulations. She was a crafty old woman. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Sly & devious. artfully. artfulness. backdoor. calculating. deviously. deviousness. disingenuously. ducking. guilefully. legerdemain. Machiavellianism. tricky.
The meaning of CRAFTY is skillful, clever. How to use crafty in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Crafty.
If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people.
There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective crafty, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in British English.
Check pronunciation: crafty. Definition of crafty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Handmade items, and sometimes the people who make them, can also be called crafty, like your crafty sister who always makes you unique birthday gifts. Definitions of crafty. adjective. marked by skill in deception. synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily. artful.
If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people.
