crafty
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“Susie is crafty and she’s into role-playing. In my mind, she had a closet full of clothes.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Mr. Pappalardo has a novelist’s gifts for description and pacing, and his material—greedy entrepreneurs, crafty moonshiners, crooked politicos and jaded cops—is material any writer would welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Arsenal's 11 international withdrawals - injury crisis or crafty caution?
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Some crafty artifice and a heap of negative space aren’t enough to fill the void left by a complete lack of narrative sense.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
He was crafty: dulling men’s wariness, or working on their fears, as served the occasion.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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