Reverse Dictionary: CRAFTY

ADJECTIVES
► ASTUCIOUS crafty, astute, subtle, cunning, shrewd → 1768 Sc.
► AULD-MOU’D crafty, sagacious → 1768 Sc.
► CAGEY ► CAGY crafty, wary, cautious, cunning, reticent, non-committal → 1893 US colloq.
► CALLENT crafty, witty, cunning or wise by experience → 1656 obs.
► CALLID crafty, cunning → 1656 obs.
► CAPTIOUS crafty → 1590 obs.
► CAUTELOUS crafty, cunning, artful; cautious, wary, heedful, prudent → 1574 obs.
► COONY wily, crafty, cunning; canny, shrewd → 1891 US sl.
► CRAFTFUL characterized by cunning or guile; crafty → 1776 obs.
► CRAFTLY displaying skill at deception or deviousness; crafty, cunning → 1526 obs.
► DERN of persons; secret in purpose or action; reserved; hence, underhand, sly, craft → before 1000 obs.
► DOWNY crafty, cunning, knowing, artful, shrewd, aware → 1803 sl., chiefly Brit.
► ENGINOUS crafty, clever, ingenious, cunning; deceitful → c1325 obs.
► GINFUL crafty, guileful; deceitful, treacherous → c1300 obs.
► GINNOUS crafty, guileful, cunning → c1425 obs.
► IKEY-MO crafty, artful, knowing → L19 sl.
► OLD crafty, sly, cunning, clever → 1722
► POLITIC scheming, crafty, cunning → 1543 derogatory
► PRETTY cunning, crafty; later, clever, skilful, able → before 1000
► QUAINT crafty, cunning, given to scheming or plotting → a1225 obs.
► RUTTERKIN crafty; sly → 1594 obs.
► SANSHACH crafty, wily; shrewd; sarcastically clever → 1808 Sc.
► SLEIGHTFUL crafty, cunning, artful, dexterous → 1380 obs.
► SLIPPERY AS A SNAKE crafty and shrewd → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► SLIVERLY crafty, cunning, deceitful, knavish, artful → 1674 Eng. dial.
► SUBDOLOUS somewhat crafty, sly, cunning, artful, deceitful → 1588
► SUBTILE crafty, artful, sly, cunning → c1385
► SUBTLE crafty, cunning; treacherously or wickedly cunning; insidiously sly, wily → 1357 obs.
► SWIKEL deceitful, treacherous, crafty → 1000 obs.
► TODLY crafty, foxy, cunning → 1571 obs.
► VAFROUS crafty, sly, cunning, shifty → a1548 obs.
► VERSUTILOQUENT talking craftily or cunningly → 1727
► VERSUTIOUS crafty, cunning, wily → 1660 obs.
► VETERATORIAN crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, sly, deceitful; gotten by long use, experienced → 1656 obs.
► VULPINARY crafty, wily, artful, cunning, sly → 1721 obs.
► WRENCHFUL crafty, artful, deceitful → a1225 obs.
► YEPE crafty, cunning, sly, wily → c1000 obs.

ADVERBS
► CRAFTFULLY in a cunning or crafty manner → 1335 obs.
► CRAFTLY cunningly; craftily; in a devious, wily, or shrewd manner → 1225 obs.
► FAKENLICHE craftily → c1000 obs.
► OLD craftily, knowingly; distrustfully, askance; angrily → 1881 Eng. dial.
► PAWKILY craftily, slyly, cleverly, shrewdly → 1725 Sc.
► SUBTILELY craftily, cunningly → c1385 obs.
► SUBTILLY craftily, cunningly → c1385 obs.
► SUBTLY craftily, treacherously, deceitfully, insidiously → c1325 obs.
► YEPLY craftily, cunningly; shrewdly, sagaciously → a900 obs.

NOUNS
► CALLIDITY craftiness, cunning → 1524
► CRAFTIHOOD craftiness, cunning → 1777 obs.
► CRAFTING crafty or cunning behaviour; deception; trickery → 1529 obs.
► DEEPTH craft, subtlety → 19C Eng. dial.
► DOWNINESS craftiness, cunning; a being alert, aware, or savvy → 1865 sl., orig. & chiefly Brit.
► FELLNESS craftiness, treachery, deceitfulness → a1398 obs.
► IKEYNESS craftiness, artfulness, greed, financial chicanery, etc.→ L19 sl.
► ITEM a crafty design; a trick; a fancy, a fad → 1887 Eng. dial.
► PANURGY craftiness, cunning, deceit, guile, a meddling in all matters → 1656 obs.
► PAUKERY ► PAWKERY ► PAWKRIE craftiness, slyness → 1823 Sc.
► QUAINTISE an instance of craft, cleverness, or cunning; a device, a stratagem, a trick → 1297 obs.
► SOPHISTRY n. cunning, trickery, craft → 1385 obs.
► SUBTILENESS craftiness, cunning, slyness → 1474 obs.
► SUBTILITY 1. craftiness, cunning → 1375 obs.
2. a crafty or cunning scheme; an artifice, a dodge → 1390 obs.
► SUBTILTY craftiness, cunning, guile → c1374 obs.
► SUBTLETY a crafty or cunning device, an artifice → 1375 obs.
► UNDERCRAFT hidden or secret craft or cunning → c1400 obs.
► WANLACE a crafty device, a plot → 1303 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANOINTER a crafty, sharp person → 1885 Eng. dial.
► CAWDEY a crafty, shrewd little boy → 1924 Ireland
► DOWNY a crafty or cunning person; a person who is aware, alert, or savvy → 1821 sl. obs., chiefly Brit.
► FOX a man likened for craftiness to a fox → c1000
► HEADCADAB a crafty person, a schemer; one educated in deceit → 1823 Sc.
► JACK a crafty, sly, or cunning fellow → 1797 (Bk.)
► LOWRIE a crafty or sly person; a person likened to a fox → 1567 obs.
► MAN OF CRAFT a cunning, crafty, or deceitful person → 1681
► NINETER ► NOINTER a crafty, sharp person → 1885 Eng. dial.
► OLD ONE a crafty or sly person → 1847-49 Amer. sl.
► OLD SHOT an old, crafty person → 1890 Aust. sl.
► OPERATOR a person who is popular, crafty, and possibly manipulative → 1944 US sl.
► POLITICIAN a schemer or plotter; a shrewd, sagacious, or crafty person; one whose behaviour is likened to that of a professional politician → 1586
► POSSUM a crafty or devious person → 1846 US sl.
► RUTTERKIN a crafty, sly old fellow; a swaggering gallant or bully → 1526 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SIM SUBTLE a crafty or subtle person → 1581 obs.
► SLY-BOOTS a crafty, sly, or cunning person → a1700 colloq.
► TOD a crafty or sly person; a person likened to a fox → 1500-20 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► ULYSSES a crafty person; an adventurous traveller → 1611
► VERSUTILOQUENT a crafty talker; one using words craftily → 1656
► WILY-PIE a crafty or cunning fellow; a sly rogue → c1450 obs.

VERBS
► CARRY A LOT UNDER ONE’S HAT to be crafty, sly → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CRAFT to act craftily; to use cunning or deception; to scheme → 1530 obs.
► FINAGLE to get or achieve by craftiness, trickery, or persuasion; to wangle → 1926 colloq.