Meaning of Daedalian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ingeniously or cunningly designed; artistic, ingenious, intricate, skillful.
2. Difficult to comprehend due to complexity or intricacy.
3. Deceitful, duplicitous.

Examples

“1812, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations volume 1, book 2, chapter 2, page 484, published in London by Cadell and Davies "The commerce and industry of the country, ... cannot be altogether so secure when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver"”

“Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump."”

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