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What does crafty mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word crafty? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
  2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
  3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
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Police department budgets were small, and town coffers often ran dry, so lawmen, being the crafty lot they are, solved their dilemma themselves.
He stays too low to the ground and is too crafty with the ball to be stopped.
Last Saturday's Airing of the Quilts at Northampton was a crafty affair, with 250 handmade quilts lining the main street.
The council often seems to think that New Yorkers are unsophisticated rubes, continually fleeced by crafty and unethical businesses.
For all their crafty appeals to lower-middle-class grouses, fascist regimes left existing patterns of property and social class largely intact.
This is particularly true in the office, where crafty technologies help bosses keep abreast of what their employees are doing.

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