'artful' definitions:
Definition of 'artful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, artful] [ant: artless, ingenuous]
adjective
Marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" [ant: artless]
Synonyms of 'artful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- astute,
- Byzantine,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- facile,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- oily,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- suave,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
Words containing 'artful'
- art,
- artfully,
- artfulness,
- arts,
- Artful Dodger,
- Arts of design,
- Black art,
- Curious arts,
- Decorative art,
- Docimastic art,
- Fine arts,
- Graphic arts,
- Hermetic art,
- High art,
- Master of arts,
- The liberal arts,
- abstract art,
- art class,
- art collection,
- art critic,
- art dealer,
- art deco,
- art department,
- art director,
- art editor,
- art exhibition,
- art form,
- art gallery,
- art historian,
- art history,
- art movement,
- art nouveau,
- art object,
- art paper,
- art rock,
- art school,
- art song,
- art student,
- art tatum,
- art teacher,
- art work,
- arts and crafts,
- associate in arts,
- bachelor of arts,
- beaux arts,
- clip art,
- commercial art,
- culinary art,
- doctor of arts,
- dramatic art,
- fine art,
- fishing the art of,
- folk art,
- glyptic art,
- graphic art,
- household arts,
- industrial arts,
- liberal arts,
- martial art,
- minimal art,
- naive art,
- occult arts,
- op art,
- outsider art,
- performing arts,
- plastic art,
- pop art,
- primitive art,
- state of the art,
- vernacular art,
- work of art,
- Beaux Arts Village,
- bachelor of arts in nursing,
- commedia dell'arte,
- doctor of fine arts,
- doctor of musical arts,
- master of arts in teaching,
- master of fine arts,
- objet d'art,
- royal academy of arts,
- state-of-the-art,
- Beaux Arts Village, WA,
- academy of television arts and sciences,
- bachelor of arts in library science,
- master of arts in library science,
- self-taught art,
- academy of motion picture arts and sciences,
- cooper union for the advancement of science and art