Sly+artifice
41cunning — index artful, artifice, clandestine, collusive, color (deceptive appearance), deceit, deception, deceptive, deft …
42cunning — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, Machiavellic, ability, acute, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, agility, airmanship, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, animal cunning, apt, arch, art,… …
43scheming — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, artifice, astute, cabal, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusion, collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent,… …
44sleight — [[t]slaɪt[/t]] n. 1) skill; dexterity 2) an artifice; stratagem 3) cunning; craft • Etymology: 1225–75; ME; early ME slēgth < ON slǣgth. See sly, th I …
45art — art1 [ärt] n. [ME < OFr arte < L ars (gen. artis), art < IE base * ar , to join, fit together > ARM1, ARM2, ARTICULATE, RATIO, L artus, joint] 1. human ability to make things; creativity of man as distinguished from th …
46wile — [wīl] n. [ME < Late OE wil < OE wigle, magic, divination, akin to wiglian, to take auspices, wicce, WITCH] 1. a sly trick; deceitful artifice; stratagem 2. a beguiling or coquettish trick usually used in pl. 3. Now Rare craftiness; guile vt …
47UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …
