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craftily, adv.|ˈkrɑːftɪlɪ, -æ-|
Forms: 1 cræftiᵹlíce, 4 craftilik, -liche, -lyche, -li, 4–6 craftyly, craftely, 4– craftily.
[f. crafty + -ly2: the spelling craftely perh. sometimes stands for the parallel craftly.]
1. Skilfully, cleverly: see crafty 2. arch.
[c900Bæda's Hist. iv. xix. (1891) 324 Seo heafodstow wundor cræftiᵹlice ᵹeworht æteowde.] c1050Gloss in Wr.-Wülcker 402/21 Fabre cræftiᵹlice. a1300Cursor M. 150 (Cott.) O salamon þe wis, How craftilik [v.r. craftili, crafteli] he did iustis. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. Prol. 48 On metres and on rymyng craftely. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 42 Þe dures er of cipresse, craftily made. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 40 Many are which others can counsayle craftely. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. 8 Wyues..with their heare craftyly broyded. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 41, I haue drunke but one Cup to night, and that was craftily qualified too. 1883Punch 8 Sept. 112/1 A craftily-prepared salad.
2. In bad sense: Cunningly, artfully, wilily.
1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 6 Preamb., Craftely feyned and forged informacions. 1550Crowley Way to Wealth 168 If thou haue not craftely vndermined him. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. v. 1387 So craftily a bait was laid. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes v. 276 The Conqueror..craftily put them under the same Title. 1884Church Bacon ii. 43 They were playing cautiously and craftily. |