Crafty

(adj.) marked by skill in deception; 'cunning men often pass for wise'; 'deep political machinations'; 'a foxy scheme'; 'a slick evasive answer'; 'sly as a fox'; 'tricky Dick'; 'a wily old attorney' .

整理:劳拉

• He may be crazed, or he may be only crafty, or perhaps a little of both. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The most crafty of her many subtleties was her feint of seeking to make the children fonder of me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr Wegg then goes on to enlarge upon what throughout has been uppermost in his crafty mind:--the qualifications of Mr Venus for such a search. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• By dint of persuasion, I made him half-define these hints; they amounted to crafty Jesuit-slanders. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Be crafty, Bill, and not too bold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Madame, laughed Light-heart the Beggar, your crafty wits are on the wrong tack. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He knew that some of these specks even represented Christopher as capable of harbouring designs in 'that head,' and as being a crafty impostor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Now would he track down the crafty Sabor and slay her likewise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He is in a child's sleep by this time, I suppose; it's time I should take my craftier head to my more worldly pillow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We will take a passenger from another famous ship, and call him Ulysses, the craftiest of the Greeks. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

校对:卢瑟