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# craftily

«craftily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a clever, sly way, often to trick someone or to get…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (more craftily, most craftily)

### meaning for a pupil

In a clever, sly way, often to trick someone or to get something without being noticed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/craftily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a villain or a clever hero acts craftily to make a plan work, or to fool a rival.

### examples

- "Would you send me to school?" he asked craftily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/craftily/#x1)
- The fox craftily hid his tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/craftily/#x2)
- She craftily made the guard look away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/craftily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1886/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «craftily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/craftily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.