Was heißt »durch­trie­ben« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv »durch­trie­ben« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • cunning
  • sly

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Ich mag ihn nicht, weil er durchtrieben wie ein Fuchs ist.

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

Synonyme

ab­ge­feimt:
crafty
vilainous
wickedly
cle­ver:
clever
smart
fin­dig:
ingenious
resourceful
resourcefully
ge­wieft:
crafty
slick
wily
hin­ter­fot­zig:
false
two-faced
hin­ter­häl­tig:
insidious
shifty
snaky
sneaky
underhand
link:
left
lis­tig:
smart
witty
per­fi­de:
perfidious
tü­ckisch:
insidious
malicious
pernicious
treacherous

Englische Beispielsätze

  • He's a sly one.

  • He's a sly old fox.

  • He did it on the sly.

  • That's a rather cunning plan. It's bound to work!

  • Tom devised a cunning and incredibly petty plan to get back at Mary.

  • That is a cunning thought.

  • You're a sly one.

  • He was seen eating a piece of cake on the sly.

  • He was seen having a piece of cake on the sly.

  • They say that foxes are more cunning than any other animals.

  • Did you think you could match cunning with me–you with your walnut of a brain?

  • You're too trusting in your infatuation, Tom. Maria is as sly as a fox.

  • She looked at me with a sly smile on her face.

  • She is very cunning.

  • He's cunning and manipulative.

  • He is a sly fox.

  • 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.

Durchtrieben übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: durchtrieben. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: durchtrieben. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 594791, 11155413, 11118111, 10540437, 10540248, 10165023, 9505418, 9149669, 8940493, 8940492, 7316520, 6627458, 6098619, 3429452, 2282930, 1806175, 293858 & 51820. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR