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craft
Synonyms and Antonyms of craft
1
an occupation requiring skillful use of the hands
calling, métier (also metier), occupation, profession, vocation
2
a small buoyant structure for travel on water
catboat, ketch, sailboat, schooner, yacht
bateau, caïque, canoe, catamaran, coracle, curragh (or currach), dhow, dinghy, dink, dory, dugout, flatboat, garvey, gig, johnboat, kayak, outrigger, paddleboat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, pontoon, pram, punt, raft, rowboat, rowing boat [chiefly British], sampan, scow, scull, shallop, shell, skiff, surfboat, umiak, wherry
cruiser, inboard, motorboat, outboard, powerboat
auxiliary, bumboat, cutter, jolly boat, launch, lifeboat, longboat, tender, yawl
barge, hoy, keel, keelboat, lighter, narrow boat [British]
ferry, ferryboat, gondola, taxi, water taxi
banker, coble, dragger, gillnetter, hooker, lugger, scalloper, seiner, shrimper, trawler, whaleboat, whaler, workboat
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the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile
falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth
hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness
artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness
treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness
oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness
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skill in achieving oneʼs ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wiliness
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subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something
Synonym Discussion of craft
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- the art of choosing the right word
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- the skill of a glassblower
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- a mystery plotted with great cunning
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- believed realism in film could be achieved only by artifice
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- the craft of a master goldsmith
craft
Synonyms and Antonyms of craft
to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form
put together
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