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    craftiness


    1. craftiness, and the counsel of the


    2. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse is carried headlong


    3. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness


    4. God says the wisdom of this world is foolishness and he takes the wise in their own craftiness and that the thoughts of the wise are in vain


    5. craftiness of this time is turning into a proof of the truth, 20 and every sweetness of unguents of this time is turning into judgment and


    6. Through his craftiness he introduces into Monasteries and Nunneries his servants of Fashion and Vanity, soon followed by Laziness and Disobedience, then Lust and Fornication (both natural and otherwise): Tetta, your struggle is truly against the fever of Lucifer, the blackest of sins, the ruin of souls! So I applaud and commend you on your firmness in discipline regarding your flock


    7. We are only students, and we would know the truth about a matter which troubles us; our difficulty is this: Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar? Shall we give or shall we not give?" Jesus, perceiving their hypocrisy and craftiness, said to them: "Why do you thus come to tempt me? Show me the tribute money, and I will answer you


    8. It was a clever way to instigate him to reveal his other evidence, but Feltus admired the craftiness and the way in which the subject had been indirectly approached


    9. Feltus smiled at the coroner’s craftiness in responding


    10. Wickland smiled at Moe as silent recognition and respect of his craftiness

    11. It could still do that again, but he expected better from Captain Forster, who had amply demonstrated by now her craftiness and cunning


    12. We are charmed by their craftiness and allow


    13. Senior, I doubt he can have the chance to exhibit his craftiness!” He was now very impressed with Feng Mantian and was not purposing praising him


    14. The depravity of Europe is but done by the craftiness of the corruptors of this nation


    15. Damn the shaman’s craftiness


    16. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming


    17. To be fully aware of beauty truth and honesty and courage and good and health: you must also be aware of evil, ugliness, horror and cunning craftiness of evil hidden under billions of years of evil


    18. He can set forth the craftiness of Ulysses, the piety of AEneas, the valour of Achilles, the misfortunes of Hector, the treachery of Sinon, the friendship of Euryalus, the


    19. tranquillised, and to prove it put up their swords again, inveighing against the pliancy of Quiteria rather than the craftiness of Basilio; Camacho maintaining that, if Quiteria as a maiden had such a love for Basilio, she would have loved him too as a married woman, and that he ought to thank heaven more for having taken her than for having given her


    20. His glance was keen but showed cunning rather than intelligence; his lips were straight, and so thin that, as they closed, they were drawn in over the teeth; his cheek-bones were broad and projecting, a never-failing proof of audacity and craftiness; while the flatness of his forehead, and the enlargement of the back of his skull, which rose much higher than his large and coarsely shaped ears, combined to form a physiognomy anything but prepossessing, save in the eyes of such as considered that the owner of so splendid an equipage must needs be all that was admirable and enviable, more especially when they gazed on the enormous diamond that glittered in his shirt, and the red ribbon that depended from his button-hole

    21. Besides, she liked him, and had become accustomed to the thought that he would belong to her, and not she to him, and, with the unconscious but persistent craftiness of heart-sick persons, she gained her end


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    Synonyms for "craftiness"

    craftiness deceitfulness guile craft cunning foxiness slyness wiliness duplicity deception artfulness artifice wile double-dealing

    "craftiness" definitions

    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception


    the quality of being crafty