Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Skilfully.
- With cunning; artfully; cunningly; wilily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With craft; artfully; cunningly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
crafty manner; slyly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an artful manner
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Examples
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For him I know for sufficient to expound and English every difficulty that is therein; for he hath lately translated the Epistles of Tully, and the book of Diodorus Siculus, and divers other works out of Latin into English, not in rude and old language, but in polished and ornate terms craftily, as he that hath read Virgil, Ovid, Tully, and all the other noble poets and orators to me unknown.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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The sacerdotal robes which he had so recently and so "craftily" assumed, furnished his own excuse, and in his letters to his faithful
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The sacerdotal robes which he had so recently and so "craftily" assumed, furnished his own excuse, and in his letters to his faithful Hopper he repeatedly congratulated himself upon his success in keeping himself at a distance from so bloody and perilous a post.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The sacerdotal robes which he had so recently and so "craftily" assumed, furnished his own excuse, and in his letters to his faithful
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The sacerdotal robes which he had so recently and so "craftily" assumed, furnished his own excuse, and in his letters to his faithful
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Meyers works cosmically and craftily, depicting structure through simple repetition and undermining it with accidental chaos.
Painter Seth Adelsberger shakes things up in Civilian Art show 2011
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The art which craftily employs them lies hid and escapes all future suspicion, when once it has been associated with beauty and sublimity.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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In college, during my lesbian period, I realized that girls lie as much as boys, only they do it far more craftily.
My Brilliant Career Gita M. Smith 2011
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The art which craftily employs them lies hid and escapes all future suspicion, when once it has been associated with beauty and sublimity.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Colet a bewitching Kay Francis as their latest mark, they craftily install themselves as her secretary and typist, respectively.
John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011
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