outcrafty

verb

outcrafty

verb

Etymology From out- + crafty.

1

To exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.

  • That drug-damn’d Italy hath out-craftied him, And he’s at some hard point.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

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