Artful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Exhibiting art or skill: "The furniture is an artful blend of antiques and reproductions” ( Michael W. Robbins).
  • adj. Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.
  • adj. Artificial.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
  • adj. Artificial; imitative.
  • adj. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
  • adj. Artificial; imitative.
  • adj. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
  • adj. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty. [The usual sense.]
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Done with or characterized by art or skill.
  • Artificial, as opposed to natural; produced or producing by art: as, “too artful a writer,” Dryden, Life of Virgil.
  • Skilful, Of persons, skilful in adapting means to ends; adroit.
  • Of things, skilfully adapted; ingenious; clever.
  • Cunning; crafty; practising or characterized by art or stratagem: as, “the Artful Dodger,” Dickens, Oliver Twist.
  • Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, etc. (see cunning), deceitful, politic, shifty, insidious.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
  • adj. marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
    • Equivalent
    twisted    perverted    misrepresented    distorted    scheming    tricky    guileful    crafty    designing    knavish   
    Cross Reference
    skillful    ingenious   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tricky    deceitful    skillful    designing    crafty    dexterous    cunning    adroit    artificial    imitative   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crafty    sly    unscrupulous    clever    adroit    deceitful    insidious    skilful    subtle    dexterous   
     
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