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[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Adjective crafty has 1 senses

   crafty(s = adj.all) cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily - 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"
Derived forms noun craft5, noun craftiness1


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

crafty, a. [AS. cr.].

1.  Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]

2.  Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. [1913 Webster]
"A noble crafty man of trees." [1913 Webster]

3.  Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"With anxious care and crafty wiles."

Syn. -- Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

crafty, adj. (craftier, craftiest) cunning, artful, wily.

Derivative:
craftily adv. craftiness n.

Etymology:
OE cr{aelig}ftig


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Cunning

N  cunning, craft, cunningness, craftiness, subtlety, artificiality, maneuvering, temporization, circumvention, chicane, chicanery, sharp practice, knavery, jugglery, concealment, guile, doubling, duplicity, foul play, diplomacy, politics, Machiavelism, jobbery, backstairs influence, art, artifice, device, machination, plot, maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile, trick, trickery, ruse, ruse de guerre, finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion, white lie, juggle, tour de force, tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers, espieglerie, net, trap, Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard, Scotchman, Jew, Yankee, intriguer, intrigant, floater, Indian giver, keener, repeater, cunning, crafty, artful, skillful, subtle, feline, vulpine, cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent, deep, deep laid, profound, designing, contriving, intriguing, strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving, artificial, tricky, tricksy, wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy, underhand, subdolous, deceitful, slippery as an eel, evasive, crooked, arch, pawky, shrewd, acute, sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle, canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff, tactful, diplomatic, politic, polite, cunningly, slyly, slily, on the sly, by a side wind, diamond cut diamond, a' bis ou a blanc, fin contre fin, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.