Translation for "retors" to english

Retors

adjective

• crafty
• tricky
• smart

Translation examples

crafty adjective

Les provinciaux ignorants et retors que nous sommes ne voient pas plus loin que leurs remparts.
Ignorant and crafty provincials like us cannot see beyond the city walls.

tricky adjective

Les nuages amènent les poissons retors à la surface.
You know, the clouds bring the tricky ones to the surface.

L'art est un truc retors.
Art's a tricky thing.

Ces trucs sont parfois retors.
Those things can be tricky.

Mais les Chevaliers des Templiers étaient retors. Ces salauds.
Even Franklin D. Roosevelt blew a significant load of cash tryin' to find it there, but the Knights Templar were tricky fellows.

smart adjective

Je suis devenu malin et retors.
I got smart and I got devious.

Ma foi, il est un peu retors. Anne dirait que je suis injuste.
Well, he's a little bit smart... but Anne would say I'm being unfair.