crafty

Adjective Satellite

marked by skill in deception

Adj

Skillful at deceiving others.
Sneaky; surreptitious.
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
Magical or occult, or allegedly so.

Adjective

Clever at achieving one's aims by indirect or deceitful means.

Examples

a crafty science
Her CRAFTY Words With Friends strategy involved setting up triple-word scores for herself.
I took a crafty look at his hand of cards while he was out of the room.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English crafty, crefty, craftiȝ, from Old English cræftiġ (“ingenious; skilful; crafty; cunning; virtuous; powerful”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftag, *kraftīg, *kraftug, from Proto-Germanic *kraftugaz (“powerful”), equivalent to craft + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kräftich, krääftig, West Frisian krêftich, Dutch krachtig, German Low German krachtig, German kräftig.

Synonyms

cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily

Scrabble Score: 14

crafty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
crafty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crafty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

crafty: valid Words With Friends Word