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Synonyms & Antonyms of craftiness
1
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- other antique dealers envied her for her craftiness in getting people to sell their treasures for a song
Synonyms for craftiness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- wiliness
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2
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
- according to the confidence man's credo of craftiness, "There's a sucker born every minute"
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