About The Word Artful
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Artful
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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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