outcrafty

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verb

To exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.

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Meanings

verboutcrafty (third-person singular simple present outcrafties, present participle outcraftying, simple past and past participle outcraftied)

present singular third person outcrafties · participle present outcraftying · participle past outcraftied · past outcraftied

  1. transitiveTo exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.

    That drug-damn’d Italy hath out-craftied him, And he’s at some hard point.

    1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]

Origin

From out- + crafty.

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outcrafty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcrafty

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outcrafty,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcrafty.

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