Crafty
['krɑːftɪ] or ['kræfti]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) marked by skill in deception; 'cunning men often pass for wise'; 'deep political machinations'; 'a foxy scheme'; 'a slick evasive answer'; 'sly as a fox'; 'tricky Dick'; 'a wily old attorney' .
整理:劳拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
(a.) Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
(a.) Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
艾莉森編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Cunning, artful, deceitful, astute, sly, arch, subtle, shrewd, wily, invidious, intriguing, tricky, crooked, diplomatic, Machiavelian.
編輯:莉齐
同義詞及反義詞：
[See CRAFTY]
錄入:洛伦佐
例句/造句/用法:
- He may be crazed, or he may be only crafty, or perhaps a little of both. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The most crafty of her many subtleties was her feint of seeking to make the children fonder of me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr Wegg then goes on to enlarge upon what throughout has been uppermost in his crafty mind:--the qualifications of Mr Venus for such a search. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- By dint of persuasion, I made him half-define these hints; they amounted to crafty Jesuit-slanders. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Be crafty, Bill, and not too bold. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Madame, laughed Light-heart the Beggar, your crafty wits are on the wrong tack. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He knew that some of these specks even represented Christopher as capable of harbouring designs in 'that head,' and as being a crafty impostor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Now would he track down the crafty Sabor and slay her likewise. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He is in a child's sleep by this time, I suppose; it's time I should take my craftier head to my more worldly pillow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We will take a passenger from another famous ship, and call him Ulysses, the craftiest of the Greeks. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
校對:卢瑟