0 clever, especially in a dishonest or secret way:
I have some crafty ideas for getting around the regulations.
She was a crafty old woman.
2 skillful in argument but likely to be dishonest:
a crafty lawyer
He submitted me to a rather crafty dialectical questionnaire.
I hope that they are fairly crafty people.
Then idleness and laziness become confused with backwardness, and these children are sufficiently crafty to know when they need to make an effort.
They will be out-talked and out-manoeuvred by the crafty boys, and they will suffer very much indeed.
Quite frankly, they think he is no match for these astute, crafty, ruthless, unscrupulous dictators; and—let us be quite honest about it—he is not.
Many of these small companies are not arty, crafty companies that were somehow set up in an arty, crafty way.
We ought to penalise that small body of crafty employers who desire to evade their responsibilities.
All crafty things are difficult to check, but those who engage in them are burdened with a sense of sin.
