CRAFTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craftily mean? 

• CRAFTILY (adverb)
  The adverb CRAFTILY has 1 sense:

1. in an artful manner

  Familiarity information: CRAFTILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAFTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an artful manner

Synonyms:

artfully; craftily; cunningly; foxily; knavishly; slyly; trickily

Context example:

had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?

Pertainym:

crafty (marked by skill in deception)

 Context examples 

Greaves and knee-pieces were also of leather backed by steel, and their gauntlets and shoes were of iron plates, craftily jointed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wolf thought to himself: “What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful—she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At such moments he charged Buck, who retreated craftily, luring him on by a simulated inability to escape.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was a smile that had in it something both of pain and weakness—a haggard old man's smile; but there was, besides that, a grain of derision, a shadow of treachery, in his expression as he craftily watched, and watched, and watched me at my work.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the days that followed, as Dawson grew closer and closer, Buck still continued to interfere between Spitz and the culprits; but he did it craftily, when François was not around, With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)