Meaning of ARTFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'ârtful
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | Antonyms: | | artless, ingenuous | | |
| | See Also: | | insincere | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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