crafty

How To Use crafty In A Sentence

• I was always a bit arty-crafty. Times, Sunday Times
• Beware of a crafty person who undermines your achievement at work.
• If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• My red lips curl into a crafty little smile at the thought of that suave, devil of a man sitting on the sixty-eighth floor.
• They were a teacher's only refuge: a place to let off steam or have a crafty cigarette between lessons. Times, Sunday Times
• Crafty collars made of beaten metal, neckpieces of wood and macramé, great big pendants and crosses are all back from the wilderness.
• He stays too low to the ground and is too crafty with the ball to be stopped.
• He is kidnapped and his friends try to save him - but are are captured by the Queen's crafty cunning.
• But they do like to dig up the garden, and are renowned as crafty escape artists.
• Crafty once meant powerful, and cunning meant knowledgeable; each has gradually taken on negative connotations (this is called pejoration). Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral