From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crafty \Craft"y\ (kr?ft"?), adjective [AS. cr[ae]ftig.]
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.
With anxious care and crafty wiles. --J. Baillie.
Syn: Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See {Cunning}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy}, {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {tricky}, {wily}] [also: {craftiest}, {craftier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "crafty": Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adroit, ambidextrous, arch, artful, astute, 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, 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
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