craftsome

comparative more craftsome · superlative most craftsome

1. Characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty.

   Mr. Bunn, lazy-looking, but watchful as an intent and craftsome wolf, saw the sudden setting of the muscles of the two men listening.

   1931, Bertram Atkey, The mystery of the glass bullet, page 151

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   To his own troops each leader Gave order: dumbly went the rest, unto their chiefs obeisant In silence: nor would any know, whether a throng so mighty Held in its bosom voice at all : and all the ranks well-marshall'd Were clad in craftsome panoply, which on their bodies glitter'd.

   1871, Homer, The Iliad of Homer: Faithfully Translated Into Unrhymed English Metre

   Everything but a square meal has happened to us—we have been highly craftsome and most detective-like, we have been all but arrested on a charge of murder, we have been bitterly threatened.

   1928, Bertram Atkey, The Midnight Mystery, page 96