English > artful: 2 senses > adjective 2| Meaning | marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft. |
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| Examples | - "the artful dodger"
- "an artful choice of metaphors"
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| Narrower | crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily | marked by skill in deception |
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| cute, precious | obviously contrived to charm |
| deep | Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy |
| designing, scheming | concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest |
| elusive | Skillful at eluding capture |
| manipulative | Skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage |
| pawky | Cunning and sly |
| See also | adroit | Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought |
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| Opposite | artless | simple and natural |
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| Spanish | artero, astuto, taimado |
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| Catalan | astut |
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| Nouns | artfulness | the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage |
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| Adverbs | artfully | in an artful manner |
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| artfully | in an artful manner |
