Hypertext Webster Gateway: "artful"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Artful \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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

artful
adj 1: 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" [syn: {disingenuous}]
[ant: {ingenuous}]
2: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with
cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice
of metaphors" [ant: {artless}]


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