Synonyms of the word

cunning

• adj. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
• adj. (obsolete) Skillful, artful.
• adj. (obsolete) Wrought with, or exibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
• adj. (US, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing.
• n. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
• n. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
• n. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being…
• n. The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).

adroit

• adj. Deft, dexterous, or skillful.

artful

• adj. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
• adj. Artificial; imitative.
• adj. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
• adj. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.].

artfulness

• n. The quality of being artful or of acting in an artful manner.

astuteness

• n. The quality of being astute.

attractive

• adj. Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
• adj. Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
• adj. Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of the opposite sex.

clever

• adj. Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
• adj. Resourceful, sometimes to the point of cunning.
• adj. Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
• adj. Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
• adj. (anthropology, of an Aboriginal Australian) Possessing magical abilities.
• adj. (obsolete) Fit; suitable; having propriety.
• adj. (obsolete) Well-shaped; handsome.
• adj. (US, dated) Good-natured; obliging.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.

craft

• n. (obsolete) Strength; power; might.
• n. (uncountable) Skill in one's work.
• n. (uncountable) Ability; dexterity; skill, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution;…
• n. (uncountable) Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness…
• n. (obsolete) A device; a means; an art; art in general.
• n. (countable, plural: crafts) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. The members of a trade collectively; guild.
• n. (nautical, whaling) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily…
• n. (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged…
• n. (figuratively) A woman.
• n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats,…
• n. (countable, plural: craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
• n. (countable, plural: crafts) A particular kind of skilled work.
• v. To make by hand and with much skill.
• v. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".
• v. (video games) to combine multiple items to form a new item.

craftiness

• n. Skill in deception, slyness.

crafty

• adj. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
• adj. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
• adj. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.

cute

• adj. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed…
• adj. Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
• adj. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
• adj. Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see acute.

dodgy

• adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) evasive and shifty.
• adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) unsound and unreliable.
• adj. dishonest.
• adj. risky.
• adj. deviant.
• adj. uncomfortable and weird.

foxiness

• n. The characteristic or quality of being foxy.

foxy

• adj. having the qualities of a fox.
• adj. attractive, sexy (of a woman).
• adj. (of a person) red-haired.
• adj. (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.

guile

• n. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
• n. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
• v. to deceive, to beguile.

guileful

• adj. Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.

ingenious

• adj. Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
• adj. Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
• adj. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

knavish

• adj. Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.

perspicaciousness

• n. Perspicacity.

perspicacity

• n. Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
• n. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
• n. (obsolete) Keen eyesight.

shrewdness

• n. The quality of being shrewd.
• n. An invented collective name for a group of apes.

slick

• adj. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
• adj. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
• adj. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
• adj. (often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
• adj. (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. sleek; smooth.
• n. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
• n. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
• n. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
• n. (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
• n. (US, military slang) A helicopter.
• n. (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative…
• n. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
• v. To make slick.

sly

• adj. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
• adj. (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful;…
• adj. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle.
• adj. Light or delicate; slight; thin.
• adv. Slyly.

slyness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being sly.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being sly.

tricksy

• adj. Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.

tricky

• adj. hard to deal with, complicated.
• adj. adept at using deception.
• adj. (colloquial, slang) Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick.

wiliness

• n. deceitful cleverness or shrewdness.

wily

• adj. sly, cunning, full of tricks.