craftily
Example Sentences
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Mr. Skarsgård’s equivocal and unshowy performance—he’s a master of acting without seeming to be acting—creates an ambiguity around Gustav, craftily rendered by the two screenwriters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
The song grapples, craftily and intensely, with the distance between passion and logic, between feelings and measurements.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Vita Sackville-West was the inspiration for her lover Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” which craftily shimmied past censorship of the “Sapphist” literature of the day.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Like any craftily layered confection, what at first presents itself as colorfully whipped reveals itself to be a more tangy, lasting bite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
"I heard your paintbrush was stolen," the judge said to him craftily, "so I had my officers search for it, and we've found it. I'm happy to return it to you."
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
