What is "craftily"

Usage examples of "craftily".

So great circumvention, and so great depreciation, in speaking of the gifts one has, seems to me to hide a little vanity under an apparent modesty, and craftily to try to make others believe in greater virtues than are imputed to us.

Of divers flowers, made full craftily All in a suit, goodly chaplets they ware.

Ginger would have responded to the pathos of it all-such self-denying, un actualized essentially lost women-were she not so distracted by seeking out and availing herself of the buried acorns they had squirreled away in all the corners of the house, indeed, craftily concealed, Ginger could not help but suspect, from someone very like herself whom they had anticipated with their sharp if squandered intelligences.

For as men say, he can do craftily, Algate* I wot well he hath such a name, *although And yet full oft he runneth into blame.

And clerkes* eke, which knowe well *scholars All this magic naturel, That craftily do their intents, To make, in certain ascendents, Images, lo!

Tuesday morning, clad in a sweater-jacket, tennis-shoes, an old felt hat, a khaki shirt and corduroys, carrying a suit-case packed to bursting with clothes and Baedekers, with one hundred and fifty dollars in express-company drafts craftily concealed, he dashed down to Baraieff's hole.

The caravaneer said craftily, "You know, it's likely I could beat the tolls anyway.

Her toothless mouth worked craftily at the cigarette held there, blowing out puffs of blue smoke that seemed to hang above and behind her in little bunched blue balls.

Sure enough the chip pan's in there, craftily hidden under a full dinner service, the toaster that I nicked from Ashworth Electricals, a kettle, a copy of Marvellous Meals with Mince, and a bread bin complete with six floured baps and a loaf of Mighty White.

He went to King City and studied a flush toilet and then built one of craftily bent tin and carved wood.

While the jewelers were appraising the garnets, he spoke idly of the rubies of Haalor, and inquired craftily as to their value.

This craftily added observation was enough to send Captain Portis out of the cabin like a charging boar, hoarse voice uplifted in a Spanish-French patois that I luckily didn't understand.

So craftily veiled indeed was his abnormality (they pointed out) that only trained psychopathologists like themselves could have recognized it.

Many can think craftily, like the female who reaved your holdings, Rolf Mariner.

Craftily I had presents for them, miniature toy slot machines, for Valerie a pearl inset ring which had cost me two hundred dollars.