Defenition of the word artful

• Defenition of the word artful

  • Marked by skill in achieving a desidered goal, usually in a bad sense.
  • marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
  • 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"
  • marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
  • not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

Synonyms for the word artful

• • clever
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • deceitful
  • devious
  • disingenuous
  • sly
  • sneaky
  • wily

Similar words in the artful

• • adroit
  • artful
  • artfully
  • artfulness
  • artfulness's
  • Byzantine
  • clever
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • cute
  • deep
  • designing
  • distorted
  • dodgy
  • elusive
  • evasive
  • foxy
  • guileful
  • ingenious
  • insincere
  • knavish
  • manipulative
  • misrepresented
  • pawky
  • perverted
  • precious
  • scheming
  • slick
  • sly
  • tricksy
  • tricky
  • twisted
  • wily

Antonyms for the word artful

• • artless
  • ingenuous

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