crafty fellow
Example Sentences
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Albert was said to be a crafty fellow who hustled match races in small towns along the way.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013
The peasants, I think, do not show displeasure when they refer to him as un furbo, 'a crafty fellow.'
From Time Magazine Archive
What a patient, crafty fellow the man had proved himself to be!
From The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" by Overend, William Heysham
If Grog be right—and he ought to be, seeing that a more dodgy, crafty fellow never lived—I shall come all round again.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
Any subtle, crafty fellow, who entices by flattery and insinuating arts, is called a Patelin.—P.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
