'Crafty' definitions:
Definition of 'crafty'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Crafty'
From: GCIDE
- Crafty \Craft"y\ (kr?ft"?), a. [AS. cr[ae]ftig.]
- 1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. [1913 Webster]
- A noble crafty man of trees. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- With anxious care and crafty wiles. --J. Baillie.
- Syn: Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crafty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- Byzantine,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- keen,
- knowing,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- tidy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily