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artfulart‧ful /ˈɑːtfəl $ ˈɑːrt-/ adjective - artful misrepresentations
- The script is an artful adaptation of a novel by Rosa Guy.
- But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight.
- Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
- He noticed the artful make-up, the elegant hair style.
- No, let such fellows as Williams be taken in by her artful wiles!
- She was as artful at that as at so many other things.
- To get from original pencil and watercolor drawings to finished rolls of wallpaper took a series of artful steps.
- Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
1clever at deceiving people SYN cunning: artful tricks2designed or done in a clever and attractive way: artful photographs—artfully adverb: artfully concealed pockets—artfulness noun [uncountable] |