craftiness
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈkræftɪnəs/
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- She admired his craftiness in planning the surprise party without anyone finding out.
Examples
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He's got a lot of craftiness, a lot of poise.
Blog text (4) -
Instead of making them yourself, you might consider getting the kids involved in the craftiness.
Blog text (5) -
I am lost at the instructions; it is not you; it is my lack of craftiness!
Blog text (11) -
This week, for Top Ten Tuesday, I wanted to feature my surprising craftiness.
Blog text (26) -
He smiled at his own craftiness.
Fiction book (1990) -
The game requires strategy, tactics, influencing other players, craftiness, and best of all, smack talk.
Blog text (12) -
Thankfully, for all that craftiness and determination, even drug dealers, for the most part, aren't geniuses.
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Fortunately, with my lack of sewing skills and craftiness, my 4-year-old does like the Disney princesses, Belle in particular.
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His craftiness helped him outsmart the competition and secure the deal.
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The child's craftiness shone through when she cleverly avoided chores by pretending to be sick.
Synonyms
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4.5
The ability to get what you want by tricking people
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7.5
Skill in getting what you want by tricking people
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7.8
Clever but dishonest way of acting that tricks people
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8.2
Skill at tricking people to get what you want
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6.2
A quality of being clever and secretly using tricks to get what you want
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7.9
Clever ways of getting what you want by tricking people
Being clever at getting what you want by tricking others
Being clever and able to trick people
A clever and dishonest way of tricking people
Being clever in a dishonest or deceptive way that is hard to guess
Antonyms
How Crafty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Craftiness comes from the old word craft, which meant 'skill' and is the same root as craftsman and handicraft. So craftiness is having skill used to get what you want, often by clever 'tricks', which explains its meaning of skill in trickery.