craftily

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8

Definition of craftily

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a crafty manner; slyly.
    “[H]e [Thomas Arundell] by his euill counſaile and prodigious ſuggeſtions, craftilye circumuented the king, inducyng him to graunt his letters of pardon to a great traytour the Erle of Arondell his brother [Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel].”
    “But the most bizarre twist of events was yet to come. That afternoon, Labour tabled a craftily worded motion. It would have guaranteed parliamentary time for a bill to ban fracking.”

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Etymology

From Middle English craftyly, craftily, craftiliche, from Old English cræftiġlīċe (“craftily, skillfully”), equivalent to crafty + -ly.

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