Definitionn. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Last update: July 28, 2015
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The kings choice, however, fell on Hajji Mirza Aghasi, a native of Erivan, who in former years, as tutor to the Sons of Abbas Mirza, had gained a certain reputation for learning and a smattering of the occult sciences, but whose qualifications for statesmanship were craftiness and suspicion. [Please select]
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I must conceal nothing from you--nothing of my craftiness. [Please select]
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A gleam of the old craftiness shone in his eyes. [Please select]
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Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for sounds from the grown-up world. [Please select]
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Hand without craftiness, eye without lust, Lip without flattery. [Please select]
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The winter before I had met with him and had had a sample of his craftiness. [Please select]
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"Yes, indeed; 'He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."' [Please select]
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