crafty

«crafty» in Mova's school dictionary: clever at getting what you want by tricks and secret… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (crafty, craftier, craftiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Crafty means clever at getting what you want by tricks and secret plans; sly. tree →

2) (informal) Crafty can mean liking or good at making crafts by hand. tree →

sense in the lessons

In fables and stories, the fox is crafty: it tricks the crow into dropping her cheese. In The Wind in the Willows the weasels and stoats are crafty, and Toad makes crafty escapes. In the Just So Stories animals use crafty tricks. «A crafty look» suggests someone is planning something.

examples

• The crafty fox tricked the crow. tree →
• He gave a crafty smile. tree →
• Toad made a crafty plan to escape. tree →
• The crafty weasels took over Toad Hall. tree →
• That was a crafty way to win the game! tree →
• Gran is very crafty — she knits and sews everything. tree →
• So, with a crafty and evil smile upon his face, he spoke as follows: tree →

note

Comparative: craftier, craftiest. Adverb: craftily. Similar: cunning, sly, wily, artful.

In the corpora

• They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured ones.
• The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; but the faithless shall be trapped in their own crafty device.
• He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.
• Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?
• For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crafty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.