CRAFTINESS

craftiness, deceitfulness, guile

(noun) the quality of being crafty

craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

craftiness (countable and uncountable, plural craftinesses)

Skill in deception, slyness

Source: Wiktionary


Craft"i*ness (krft"-ns), n.

Definition: Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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