different between crafty vs craftily
crafty
English
Etymology
From Middle English crafti, crefti, from Old English cræfti? (“ingenious; skilful; crafty; cunning; virtuous; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *kraftagaz, *kraftugaz (“powerful”), equivalent to craft +? -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kräftich, West Frisian krêftich, Dutch krachtig, German Low German krachtig, German kräftig.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?æfti/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k???fti/
Adjective
crafty (comparative craftier, superlative craftiest)
- Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
- Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
- Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft
- Synonyms: cunning, wily
- For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
- Sneaky; surreptitious.
- I took a crafty look at his hand of cards while he was out of the room.
Synonyms
- (skillful): See also Thesaurus:skilled
- (cunning, wily): See also Thesaurus:wily
Translations
crafty From the web:
- what crafty means
- what crafty things to do when bored
- what crafty things can i make and sell
- what crafty things can i make
- what crafty means in spanish
- crafty what does it mean
- crafty what do it mean
- crafty what rhymes
craftily
English
Etymology
From Middle English craftyly, craftily, craftiliche, from Old English cræfti?l??e (“craftily, skillfully”), equivalent to crafty +? -ly.
Adverb
craftily (comparative more craftily, superlative most craftily)
- In a crafty manner; slyly.
Translations
craftily From the web:
- craftily meaning
- what does craftily
- what does craftily definition
- what does act craftily mean
- what is a crafty person
- what does plot craftily mean
- what the word craftily mean
- what does craftily mean example
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- crafty vs craftily
- craftily vs fox
- happy vs wisely
- wisely vs sensibly
- widely vs wisely
- putterings vs mutterings
- gutterings vs mutterings
- mutterings vs musterings
- mutterings vs butterings
- butterings vs gutterings
- putterings vs butterings
- butterings vs batterings
- bitterings vs butterings
- butterings vs butterines
- putterings vs gutterings
- patterings vs putterings
- putterings vs sputterings
- potterings vs putterings
- accessories vs decors
- decorations vs decors