The word crafty is the term we use repeatedly to account for the skill and sagacity that someone shows both in their way of acting and in the way of thinking and solving a problem that presents itself with a certain degree of difficulty. It is also common that the word is used to refer to that iAn individual who is skilled at deceiving or evading a deception that has been tended to him.
It should be noted that the word can be applied with a negative intentionality or, failing that, positively, what will determine such evaluation will be the purpose and objective of the action in question. Because, for example, astute may be the one who manages to outline the perfect plan to carry out a robbery or the one who manages to escape from a trap into which people who have sent him wanted to make him fall and do not want him, because he is a good individual. and successful.
It is important to mention, to avoid mistakes, that cunning has nothing to do with intelligence, or failing that, with professional training, but rather it is a skill that someone has and that is what makes them capable of unraveling the existence of a plan against him or to find the escape or resolution in a situation that imposes a crossroads.
The term clever has a large number of synonyms, the following being the most used: clever, clever, sagacious ..., among others. Meanwhile, the concept that directly opposes that of cunning is that of naive, which refers innocent, who does not show any malice.
