craftily
part of speech
adverb (more craftily, most craftily)
meaning for a pupil
In a clever, sly way, often to trick someone or to get something without being noticed. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means slyly. In the Psalm, God lets Egypt turn against Israel and deal with them by trickery. Interpretation: The tradition reads this as part of the Egyptian slavery story, which Jews recall every Passover. In the primary lessons: in tales, a villain or a clever hero acts craftily to make a plan work, or to fool a rival.
examples
- He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants. (Writings PSA.105.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- "Would you send me to school?" he asked craftily. tree →
- The fox craftily hid his tail. tree →
- She craftily made the guard look away. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «craftily» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.