Crafty vs Subtile - What's the difference?
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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/]
(obsolete) subtle
* 1819 , , The Works of Francis Bacon , volume 2, page 2:
As adjectives the difference between crafty and subtile
is that crafty is relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous while subtile is subtle.crafty
English
Adjective
(er)- 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
* See alsosubtile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- And sometimes this perception, in some kind of bodies, is far more subtile than the sense; so that the sense is but a dull thing in comparison of it: we see a weather-glass will find the least difference of the weather, in heat, or cold, when men find it not.