craftsome
craftsome adjective: characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty.
Adjective
craftsome (comparative more craftsome, superlative most craftsome)
- Characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty.
- 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.1871, Homer, The Iliad of Homer: Faithfully Translated Into Unrhymed English Metre - 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.1928, Bertram Atkey, The Midnight Mystery, page 96
- To his own troops each leader
Forms of craftsome
| comparative | more craftsome |
|---|---|
| superlative | most craftsome |
Origin of craftsome
From craft + -some.
Questions about craftsome
- What does craftsome mean?
- Craftsome means characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty.
- What part of speech is craftsome?
- Craftsome is an adjective.
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