artful English

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artful

— adjective marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft the artful dodger an artful choice of metaphors

— adjective (= disingenuous) 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

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cunning

crafty

wily

sly

tricky

shrewd

skillful

astute

shifty

sharp

dodgy

canny

cagey

nimble

foxy

cautious

calculating

skilled

skilful

dexterous

designing

clever

vulpine

smart

pawky

ingenious

disingenuous

deceitful

be wily

be subtle

be sly

be cunning

be crafty

artistic

artificial

vigorous

underhanded

trick

tip

tactic

synthetic

subtle

subtile

subterfuge

stratagem

stagy

stagey

slyish

slick

sleeked