craftily

How To Use craftily In A Sentence

• But they were so attentive to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and a silver sistrum. Satyricon
• And if a new admin were to inherit our craftily configured server, it would take quite a bit of detective work in order to even begin to understand how we configured everything.
• We watched in disbelief as the nation was craftily wrested from our grip in these three short years.
• The film has been craftily re-edited and re-marketed into a love story that shows the Japanese as honourable soldiers.
• ‘It was craftily worded,’ admitted one EU diplomat in London.
• But the more and holier ceremonies the league is knit up with, the sooner it is broken by some cavillation found in the words, which many times of purpose be so craftily put in and placed, that the bands can never be so sure nor so strong, but they will find some hole open to creep out at, and to break both league and truth. The Second Book. Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters
• For even though the mother turtle carefully and craftily dug a hole, laid the eggs and then patted the sand down, they were found.
• aboveboard" campaign, now subtly and craftily playing the "race card" (because he has so few cards to play; to be fair, former President Bill Clinton played the same game, too), that thing continues to bubble just under the surface. The Bilerico Project
• Despite accidentally sinking the white ball and then being craftily snookered by Mac, he played his way out of most problems including a spectacular bank-shot sinking his red stripe into a centre pocket.
• But whatever it is, it craftily evades our attempts to isolate and kill it.