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Craftiness vs Deceitfulness - What's the difference?

craftiness | deceitfulness |

As nouns the difference between craftiness and deceitfulness

is that craftiness is skill in deception, slyness while deceitfulness is the state or quality of being deceitful.

craftiness

English

Noun

  • Skill in deception, slyness

    • deceitfulness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being deceitful.
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
  • *:O full off all sutelte and disseytfulnes the chylde off the devyll, and the enemye of all righteousnes thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde.
  • *1839 , Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 42,
  • *:'This is the hend, is it, of all my bearing with her deceitfulness , her lowness, her falseness, her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vulgar minds . . .'
  • *1903 , Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days , ch. 20 "A Moonlight Drive",
  • *:The lanterns both rear and forward being always in sight, I was as much at sea as any one as to the length of the herd, knowing the deceitfulness of distance of campfires and other lights by night.

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