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Artful Meaning & Definition
Artful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Artful?

[adj] marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
[adj] not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Artful: adroit | Byzantine | clever | crafty | cunning | cute | deep | designing | disingenuous | distorted | dodgy | elusive | evasive | foxy | guileful | ingenious | knavish | manipulative | misrepresented | pawky | perverted | precious | scheming | slick | sly | tricksy | tricky | twisted | wily

Related Terms | Find terms related to Artful: acute | adroit | ambidextrous | arch | astute | Byzantine | cagey | calculating | canny | chiseling | clever | collusive | covinous | crafty | crooked | cunning | cute | deceitful | deep | deep-laid | designing | devious | dexterous | diplomatic | dishonest | disingenuous | double | double-dealing | double-faced | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | duplicitous | facile | faithless | false | falsehearted | false-principled | feline | finagling | forsworn | foxy | fraudulent | furtive | guileful | indirect | ingenious | insidious | insincere | inventive | knowing | Machiavellian | Machiavellic | oily | pawky | perfidious | perjured | politic | ready | resourceful | scheming | serpentine | sharp | shifty | shrewd | slick | slippery | sly | smooth | snaky | sneaky | sophistical | specious | stealthy | strategic | suave | subtile | subtle | superficial | supple | surreptitious | tactical | treacherous | trickish | tricksy | tricky | two-faced | uncandid | underhand | underhanded | unfrank | unsincere | untruthful | vulpine | wary | wily

See Also | insincere

Artful In Webster's Dictionary

\Art"ful\, a. [From {Art}.] 1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] ``Artful strains.'' ``Artful terms.'' --Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. --Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. --Dryden. 4. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.] Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. --Pope. The artful revenge of various animals. --Darwin. Syn: Cunning; skillful; adroit; dexterous; crafty; tricky; deceitful; designing. See {Cunning}.

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