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    art·ful
    [ˈärtf(ə)l]
    adjective
    artful (adjective)
    1. (of a person or action) clever or skillful, typically in a crafty or cunning way:
      "her artful wiles"
    2. showing creative skill or taste:
      "an artful photograph of a striking woman"
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    adjective
    1. (of a person or action) clever or skillful, typically in a crafty or cunning way:
      sly
      crafty
      cunning
      wily
      scheming
      devious
      Machiavellian
      sneaky
      guileful
      tricky
      conniving
      designing
      calculating
      shrewd
      astute
      sharp-witted
      sharp
      acute
      intelligent
      clever
      alert
      canny
      deceitful
      deceptive
      duplicitous
      cheating
      dishonest
      disingenuous
      underhand
      untrustworthy
      unscrupulous
      double-dealing
      dirty
      foxy
      shifty
      smart
      fly
      slim
      vulpine
      carny
      subtle
      shonky
      Opposite:
      ingenuous
      honest
      dull
     
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    What does artful mean?
    Get a quick, free translation! ARTFUL definition: 1. clever and skilful, especially in getting what you want: 2. clever and skillful, especially in…. Learn more.

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    How do you describe an artful person?
    Bring the weekend to an artful end at the Museum Ludwig. Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people. ...the artful wording of the document.

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    What is the difference between artful and artful?
    From art (“skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun). artful (comparative more artful, superlative most artful)

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    What does artful mean in anthology?
    If you use artful to describe the way someone has done or arranged something, you approve of it because it is clever or elegant. There is also an artful contrast of shapes. Despite some artful editing, the anthology is a weak one. ...artfully arranged flowers. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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    What does it mean if a politician is artful?
    A politician is artful in appealing to different groups of people. This word also indicates that the skill shown is a little cunning or sneaky. In movies, villains are often artful, as they tell lies or hatch schemes.

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    What is the difference between an artist and an artful architect?
    At one and the same time intricate, artful, and accurate, they spoke authority. An artful contrast is thereby developed between two homophones denoting the speaker's material substance and the male protagonist's spiritual character. In many ways it is almost easier for them to deal with an artist rather than an artful architect.

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