pawky
adj.
shrewd, cunning, wily; clever, smart, intelligent
pawky
Adjective
1. cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch
(similar) artful
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Pawky
(a.)
Arch; cunning; sly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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pawky
Synonyms and related words:
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deliberate, designing, devious, difficult, diplomatic, discreet, feline, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, foxy, fuss-budgety, fussy, gingerly, guarded, guileful, hard to please, heedful, hesitant, ingenious, insidious, inventive, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, mindful, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pernickety, persnickety, politic, prudent, queasy, ready, regardful, resourceful, safe, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, squeamish, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, tentative, thorough, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, vulpine, wary, wily
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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