Prudent, sagacious, cunning, skilled; ? also, rarely, staid. Frequently coupled with wise. Obsolete exc. archaic.

Skilled at deception, trickery, or scheming; characterized by ingenuity in achieving a desired end or gaining an advantage over others; cunning…

Cunning, deceitful.

Cunning, crafty, sly, wily.

figurative. ? Used as adj.: Fox-like, cunning.

Of persons: Adept or skilful in artifice or craft; using cunning or insidious means or methods; deceitful, guileful, wily, underhand.

Deceitful, crafty, insidious.

Of a person: cunning, crafty, given to scheming or plotting. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

Artful, crafty, deceitful.

wily.

Full of or characterized by wiles; crafty, cunning, sly, artful. Of a person or animal (or figurative of a thing personified).

Of a person or animal: crafty, cunning, esp. in a deceitful or treacherous way; sly, wily; devious, underhand. Now rare.

Full of cautels; deceitful, crafty, artful, wily.

Full of, characterized by, craft or artifice; crafty, cunning.

Of a person or animal, an action, behaviour, etc.: crafty, cunning; sly, treacherous; = subtle, adj. 2.

Clever, crafty, cunning; deceitful. Obsolete.

Crafty, wily.

Full of or characterized by wiles; crafty, cunning, sly, artful. Of personal attributes, actions, etc.

Possessed of, making use of, sleight or craft.

Having the evil qualities of the serpent; pertaining to the Serpent as the tempter of humankind; diabolical, Satanic; devilishly wily or cunning.

Crafty, guileful.

In unfavourable sense: crafty, cunning, wily, artful; skilful in contriving evil; also, foolishly ingenious in devising something to one's own hurt…

(See quot.)

Displaying or characterized by artifice; artful, cunning. Obsolete.

Marked or characterized by subtle craft, cunning, or strategy; artful, crafty, wily.

Slippery; smooth. Also figurative, crafty, cunning, deceitful.

In early use: †Cunning, artful (obsolete). Now only in favourable sense: Clever or keen-witted in practical affairs; astute or sagacious in action…

Characterized by or displaying skill at deception or deviousness; crafty, cunning. Obsolete.

Fox-like: esp. crafty, cunning.

Perhaps: looking askance, casting covetous or cunning glances, sly.

figurative. Like a fox in nature, crafty, cunning.

Full of wiles or plots; lying in wait or seeking to entrap or ensnare; proceeding or operating secretly or subtly so as not to excite suspicion…

Sly, cunning, crafty, shifty.

also frequently in jingling form wily beguily (and similar expressions) originally in to play wily beguile oneself (also later in various corrupt…

= wily, adj. (Also in combination.)

Intellectually subtle; clever, ingenious. Often in negative sense: cunning, crafty. Obsolete.

Foxy, crafty.

Artful, crafty, cunning. Obsolete.

Cunning, crafty; sly, underhand.

Crafty. Obsolete.

Abounding in cunning.

As adj. = cautelous, adj.

In bad sense: Skilful in compassing one's ends by covert means; clever in circumventing; crafty, artful, guileful, sly. (The prevailing modern sense.)

Cunning, crafty, wily.

Full of shifts or devices.

Cunning, artful. Chiefly in negative sense. Now rare.

= insidious, adj.

Scottish. Wily, sly, cunning. Obsolete.

Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English. Artful, sly, shrewd; arch, roguish; jaunty. Now usually: having or showing a sardonic…

Given to playing tricks; = tricky, adj. 1.

Crafty, cunning. Cf. callent, adj.

= versute, adj.

Of a person: skilful in adapting means to ends, so as to secure the accomplishment of a purpose, adroit. Hence: skilful in taking unfair…

Of persons, their actions, etc.: Sly, cunning, crafty, wily, artful.

In a bad sense: ‘Clever’, crafty, cunning.

Characterized by or given to tricks or trickery; rather tricky, crafty, or cunning.

Scottish and Irish English (northern). Clever; cunning.

figurative. Smooth, polished, sleek, sly.

Full of tricks or deception; tricky, crafty, cunning, cheating.

Full of tricks; tricky.

Given to the practice of crafty or deceitful tricks; characterized by trickery.

Oblique, not straightforward. Also, dubious, shifty, disreputable.

Somewhat or rather sly; roguish.

figurative. Cunning, sly.

Smart, cunning. Now rare.

Suggestive of that of a spider, in respect of entanglement, cunning, etc.

Full of or addicted to dodges; evasive, tricky, artful. Also (colloquial) of things: difficult, awkward, tricky.

A vicious or unmanageable horse, steer, etc.; a stray animal. Also as adj., wild, vicious, cunning.

Artful, sly.

Of a woman, esp. from the manner of her dress: sinuous, slender, gliding; of a garment: close-fitting, as if moulded to the figure. In extended…