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artful

[ahrt-fuhl]

adjective

  1. slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky.

    artful schemes.

  2. skillful or clever in adapting means to ends; ingenious.

    an artful choice of metaphors and similes.

  3. done with or characterized by art or skill.

    artful acting; artful repairs.

  4. Archaic.artificial.



artful

/ ˈɑːٴʊ /

adjective

  1. cunning or tricky

  2. skilful in achieving a desired end

  3. archaiccharacterized by skill or art

  4. archaicartificial

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • artfully adverb
  • artfulness noun
  • unartful adjective
  • unartfully adverb
  • unartfulness noun
  • ˈٴڳܱ adverb
  • ˈٴڳܱԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of artful1

First recorded in 1605–15; art 1 + -ful
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At the time, it seemed prophetic but impossible, a bit of artful exaggeration to warn against a dystopian tendency.

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So sophisticated and delicate in its moon-eyed teenage passions, full of artful melodic moves bolstered by the pure-water harmonies that would define the group.

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The film is about the beats, the themes, the threading of the stories through time and across decades, and what’s particularly artful about the storytelling in this movie is the interconnectivity of the tales.

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So is artful prose, which he’s displayed in a pair of excellent memoirs about his favorite writers.

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Another former chairman, Tom Wheeler, said he sees an artful strategy by Carr to create turbulence with little recourse.

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