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English
Etymology
From craft + -some.
Adjective
craftsome (comparative more craftsome, superlative most craftsome)
- Characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty
1871, Homer, The Iliad of Homer: Faithfully Translated Into Unrhymed English Metre:To his own troops each leader
Gave order: dumbly went the rest, unto their chiefs obeisant
In silence: nor would any know, whether a throng so mighty
Held in its bosom voice at all : and all the ranks well-marshall'd
Were clad in craftsome panoply, which on their bodies glitter'd.
1928, Bertram Atkey, The Midnight Mystery, page 96:Everything but a square meal has happened to us—we have been highly craftsome and most detective-like, we have been all but arrested on a charge of murder, we have been bitterly threatened.
1931, Bertram Atkey, The mystery of the glass bullet, page 151:Mr. Bunn, lazy-looking, but watchful as an intent and craftsome wolf, saw the sudden setting of the muscles of the two men listening.
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