Dictionary entry

Crafty

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Craft″y (kr?ft″?), a. [AS. cr�ftig.] 1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. “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.