Dizionario Tedesco - Inglese

schlau in inglese:

1. craftily

craftily diplomat is A. Merkel.

Inglese parola "schlau"(craftily) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Exiles" (James Joyce)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Personae" (Ezra Pound)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Giotto" (Harry Quilter)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Poems" (Clara A. Merrill)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Wanderers" (Knut Hamsun)

2. scilly

Inglese parola "schlau"(scilly) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "England" (Frank Fox)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Mock Idyl" (Percy Ross)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Raleigh" (Edmund Gosse)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Olivia in India" (O. Do...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Old Road" (Hilaire ...

3. rangy

a rangy teenager

Inglese parola "schlau"(rangy) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Lady Luck" (Hugh Wiley)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Right Time" (Walter...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Best Short Stories" (Va...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Gold Girl" (James B...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Bat Wing Bowles" (Dane ...

4. shrewdly

Inglese parola "schlau"(shrewdly) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Do Unto Others" (Mark C...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Man Who Wins" (Robe...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Wheels Within" (Charles...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Advance Agent" (Christo...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Girl in His Mind" (...

5. rakish

A tricorn trimmed with gold lace was set at a rakish angle over a wig of white curls that dropped down to his waist.

Inglese parola "schlau"(rakish) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "White Fire" (Roy J. Snell)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Salt-Water Ballads" (Jo...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "An Alphabet of History"...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Faithless Parrot" (...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "More About the Squirrel...

6. smartly

smartly dressed

You don't have to dress smartly for all job interviews.

Inglese parola "schlau"(smartly) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "On Adventure Island" (B...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Children of Our Town" (...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "How To Ski and How Not ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Day Well Spent A Farc...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Nursery, November 1...

7. canny

He was canny enough not to question them too nearly.

He proved to be a canny businessman who successfully run the family business.

Inglese parola "schlau"(canny) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Dotty Dimple at Play" (...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Russian Ballet" (El...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Fly Fishing in Wonderla...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Mr. Punch's Scottish Hu...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Theatrical Primer" ...

8. gawky

Inglese parola "schlau"(gawky) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Popular Amusements" (J....
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Manners of the Age" (Ho...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Damon and Delia A Tale"...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Annals of Ann" (Kat...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Crisis, Volume 2" (...

9. wily

wily businessman/manoeuvring

wily opponents

The wily cartoon character was always thinking of ways to steal food

A wily hunter, Christopher Columbus once donned a red riding hood and went into the forest. Without a doubt, he attracted the Big Bad Wolf, grabbed him, and dragged the screaming wolf back to his ship.

Inglese parola "schlau"(wily) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Book of Nonsense" (Ed...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Doctor Rabbit and Tom W...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Motor Matt's Make Up or...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Miss Heck's Thanksgivin...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Quotes and Images From ...

10. clever

Even if it isn't true, it's still rather clever.

"We are dealing with a clever man, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes.

You're clever.

Generally speaking, the young people of today are clever.

Clever people know how to make money out of nothing.

I think that against somebody like that, my seemingly clever techniques would be seen through and then I would be defeated.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

Clever programming requires a computer.

You may think you are clever, but you cannot laugh at me because of that.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are.

A clever solution for a child who fears monsters would be to tell them monsters are weak and fear children even more.

I’d like to be a doctor but I’m not clever enough.

Japanese women are believed to be very clever with their hands.

I am clever, sensitive and imaginative.

The people of old were simple through honesty; the people of today are clever through artificiality.

Inglese parola "schlau"(clever) si verifica in set:

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11. sly

He is a sly fox.

I don't like him because he is sly as a fox.

Remember that he's sly enough to cheat us.

"You'll find out eventually," said Mary, with a sly smile.

It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

He'd been on the receiving end of his own set of sly smiles.

You sly dog, you did listen to me.

Julia is so sly; she says one thing to my face and another behind my back.

He looked at me with a sly smile on his face and a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Fox is a very sly animal.

She looked into his eyes and gave him a sly smile.

His smile was a sly thing, breaking in from the side of his face.

If you do something on the sly, you do it secretly because you should not be doing it:

a sly political move

He appears sly on the surface.

Inglese parola "schlau"(sly) si verifica in set:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Little Gingerbread ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "All About the Little Sm...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Butterflys' Ball Mo...

12. cunning

He's cunning.

a cunning and resourceful criminal

It is said that the fox is more cunning than any other animal.

The fox was very cunning. He waited until the door of the chicken coop was left open and then snuck inside.

That's just how cunning North Korea (and China) is.

He makes believe that he is a practical statesman, but in really he is a cunning politician.

The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.

Time and again they risk their lives in search of cunning new escape routes. Cunning as a fox.

The thief is very cunning, it won't be easy to catch him.

"He was a most cunning and courageous warrior," Thrawn continued.

He's as cunning as a fox. / 2. He thinks he's so cunning. / 3. I admit my cunning plan backfired.

I didn't know that Peter is so cunning.

So he had to think of something much more cunning

I am a cunning because can find a good way out in a difficult situation.

The Parisian police, he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand."

Inglese parola "schlau"(cunning) si verifica in set:

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13. crafty

He is more crafty than wise.

The Germans are very crafty.

crafty man/plan/look

His crafty mind prepared a plan to defraud his partners.

Jill: They like to be crafty and so, you know, that kind of stuff.

Inglese parola "schlau"(crafty) si verifica in set:

Slavery and human rights in the USA
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Dog Day or The Angel ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Doctor Rabbit and Ki-Yi...