All crafty synonyms
craftΒ·y
C c adj crafty
- wily β full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- shrewd β astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- slick β smooth and glossy; sleek.
- insidious β intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- cagey β If you say that someone is being cagey about something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
- smart β having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability: a smart student.
- canny β A canny person is clever and able to think quickly. You can also describe a person's behaviour as canny.
- subtle β thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- devious β If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
- intelligent β having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
- astute β If you describe someone as astute, you think they show an understanding of behaviour and situations, and are skilful at using this knowledge to their own advantage.
- sly β cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- adroit β Someone who is adroit is quick and skilful in their thoughts, behaviour, or actions.
- artful β If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.
- calculating β If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
- cunning β Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
- deceitful β If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- deep β If something is deep, it extends a long way down from the ground or from the top surface of something.
- designing β artful and scheming; conniving; crafty
- disingenuous β lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- duplicitous β marked or characterized by duplicity.
- foxy β foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
- fraudulent β characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- keen β finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
- knowing β affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
- sharp β having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- slippery β tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- smooth β free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- tricky β given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- vulpine β of or resembling a fox.
- guileful β insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- streetwise β street-smart.
noun crafty
- skullduggery β skulduggery.
adjective crafty
- sneaky β like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- underhand β not open and aboveboard; secret and crafty or dishonorable: an underhand deal with the chief of police.
- clever β Someone who is clever is intelligent and able to understand things easily or plan things well.
- scheming β given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.