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1. (adj.) artful
slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky.
2. artful
skillful or clever in adapting means to ends; ingenious.
3. artful
done with or characterized by art or skill.
4. artful
Archaic. artificial.
Etymology: (1605–15)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) disingenuous, artful
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"
2. (adj) artful
marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
"the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) artful
performed with, or characterized by, art or skill
2. (adj) artful
artificial; imitative
3. (adj) artful
using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful
4. (adj) artful
cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
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Sense: clever; having a lot of skill (usually in a bad sense)
an artful thief.
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 Afrikaans: vindingryk |
 Arabic: ماكِر، حاذِق، ماهِر |
 Bulgarian: хитрост |
 Brazilian: astuto |
 Czech: rafinovaný, vynalézavý |
 German: listig |
 Danish: snedig; udspekuleret |
 Greek: επιτήδειος, ικανός |
 Spanish: astuto; con artimaña |
 Estonian: osav |
 Farsi: زبردست؛ حیله گر |
 Finnish: kekseliäs |
 French: rusé |
 Hebrew: עַרמוּמִי |
 Hindi: चालाक |
 Croatian: prepreden |
 Hungarian: ügyes |
 Indonesian: cerdik, licin |
 Icelandic: kænn, slægur |
 Italian: astuto |
 Japanese: 巧妙な |
 Korean: 기교가 풍부한 |
 Lithuanian: gudrus, apsukrus |
 Latvian: viltīgs; slīpēts |
 Malay: licik |
 Dutch: gewiekst |
 Norwegian: listig, slu |
 Polish: przebiegły |
 Persian: زبردست؛ حیله گر |
 Pashto: ماهر ، چالاک |
 Portuguese: astuto |
 Romanian: viclean; abil |
 Russian: хитроумный |
 Slovak: prefíkaný |
 Slovenian: prekanjen |
 Serbian: vešt |
 Swedish: förslagen, slug |
 Thai: มีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม |
 Turkish: kurnaz,şeytan |
 Taiwanese: 狡猾的 |
 Ukrainian: спритний; хитрий |
 Urdu: کاریگری |
 Vietnamese: ma mãnh |
 Chinese: 狡猾的 |
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