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Perfidious vs Crafty - What's the difference?

perfidious | crafty |

As adjectives the difference between perfidious and crafty

is that perfidious is of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance while crafty is relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.

perfidious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
  • *:TRINCULO (speaking about ): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
  • * 1851 , , Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:
    • The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
  • * 1905 , , John Knox and the Reformation , ch. 14:
    • [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
  • * 2005 June 21, , " Art: The Velocipede of Modernism," Time :
    • When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.

    Synonyms

    * (disloyal) disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful

    Derived terms

    * perfidiously * perfidiousness

    Related terms

    * perfidy

    crafty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
  • Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
  • Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.

    Synonyms

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