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(adj)
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
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(n)
Skill in deception, slyness.
Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
(uncountable) The state or quality of being sly.
Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
deceitful cleverness or shrewdness
(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious.
Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.
Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Unsound and unreliable.
deft, dexterous, or skillful
Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
Hard to deal with, complicated.
Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
The characteristic or quality of being foxy.
(informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
(countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
(v)
(transitive) To entice or lure.
Involving trickery or deception.
Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
Deliberately misleading or cheating.
Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
Dishonest; deceitful.
Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
Senses relating to tangible things.
Knowing, shrewd, astute.
Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
Shrewd or crafty.
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.
Clever; amusingly ingenious.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
(of processes) Developed, improved.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
(UK, slang) Great, excellent.
Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Commonwealth and Irish form standard spelling of skillful
A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
Principal; primary.
(countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.
Of or pertaining to Russia or Russians.
The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.
(not comparable) Having the ability to calculate.
Tending to manipulate.
Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.
(obsolete) Sly; crafty; cunning.
(archaic) cunning or shrewd; crafty.
Characterised by tricks or trickery; cunning, tricksy.
(obsolete) Cautious, careful.
Crafty; full of tricks.
Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
That slithers; that moves like a snake.
(simile) Very sly, very cunning.
Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
A politics; a set of political beliefs.
Somewhat sly.
A surname.
cunning; dexterous
Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
crafty; wily; artful
nimble; dexterous
(obsolete) Crafty; cunning; sly.
Devious; cunning; misleading; sneaky.
Somewhat sneaky.
(informal) sleuthlike; of or in the manner of a sleuth.
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
Obsolete spelling of subtle. [Senses relating to tangible things.]
(colloquial) Quite clever.
Of or relating to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
(derogatory) Showily or ostentatiously clever.
A ponyfish.
(Scotland) Specious, flattering; cunning.
gerund of wind
Characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty
(simile, colloquial) So slippery that it is almost impossible to hold.
Resembling or characteristic of a sleuth.
(obsolete) Trickish; artful.
That connives; conspiratorial.
(obsolete) surreptitious; spurious
Obsolete form of sleightful. [cunning; dexterous]
sleek; slick
(rare) Relating to a fox.
(archaic) Armed with deceit; treacherous.