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

But behind the gag-triggering premise is a film that’s comically daring, craftily directed, unmercifully vulgar and all the way German.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 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

He is a scholar in the play; Faye, craftily, makes him an aspiring biographer.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Once he wakes up and grins so craftily that we are alarmed and begin to think he is cheating, and that we have given him the punch to no purpose.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque