PAWKY Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

pawky

adjective

Definition of pawky

chiefly British

as in cunning

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Adjective

Sing, muse, of the cunning Christopher Nolan, who has once again achieved the impossible.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 19 July 2026
In the classic tradition, this bit of strategic genius is the ultimate proof of Odysseus’s mētis, or cunning intelligence.

— Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of cunning

Adjective

Indeed, Grozeva and Valchanov’s sly ability to shift tones from ripely comical to appalling is one of their defining features as filmmakers, along with a penchant for weird and wacky side characters.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
During the celebration, Haaland played it cool, looking into the crowd with a sly smile.

— Tim Rohan, NBC news, 6 July 2026

Definition of sly

Adjective

Damon is rugged and haunting in this absolute star turn as Odysseus, who, in a departure from the wilier original, is written as a true-hearted hero whose primary flaw was his unwavering loyalty to his men and his family.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Nolan has chosen to portray Odysseus as a warrior and commander, but ignores the wily, pleasure-loving side of his character.

— Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of wily

Adjective

One subtle change, however, was his emphasis on spending Year 1 and building a foundation with the Tigers.

— Seth Emerson, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Researchers have since modified other proteins to interact with Cas9 but catalyze more subtle changes to DNA, such as lopping off a single base or making chemical modifications that alter how it base-pairs.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026

Definition of subtle

Adjective

Project 2025, produced by the Heritage Foundation, was more shrewd.

— Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
Ackman’s misfires, though, have been offset by some prescient investments in the face of black swan events like the subprime mortgage crisis and COVID, cementing his reputation as one of the shrewdest and most daring risk-takers on Wall Street.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of shrewd

Adjective

Bruno Guimaraes and Lucas Paqueta played guileful defence-splitting passes.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 20 June 2026
One is to emphasize Iago—the guileful, insinuating convincingness of this malicious supervillain, who works on Othello to the point where any reasonable man would be deceived and fooled and worked into a rage that can lead to such a catastrophe.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026

Definition of guileful

Adjective

As an astute student of soul, Jasmine Rose Wilson has identified a common thread tying together all the different permutations of the music.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026
In a summer window that has seen 21-year-old Mateus Fernandes move from West Ham United to Tottenham Hotspur for £85million, a near £50m deal for this six-cap Brazil international can be read as astute business.

— Carl Anka, New York Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of astute

Adjective

The hotel’s Art of Discovery experience (rates starting at $375) takes guests on an artful journey through its 700-piece global art collection, displayed throughout the building.

— Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2026
This modern methodology, also frequently employed by ascendent jazz jammers SML, adds artful friction to the Prairiewolf terroir.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 17 July 2026

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