adjective. Exhibiting art or skill.

adjective. Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.

adjective. Artificial.

Done with or characterized by art or skill.

Artificial, as opposed to natural; produced or producing by art: as, “too artful a writer,” Dryden, Life of Virgil.

Skilful, Of persons, skilful in adapting means to ends; adroit.

Of things, skilfully adapted; ingenious; clever.

Cunning; crafty; practising or characterized by art or stratagem: as, “the Artful Dodger,” Dickens, Oliver Twist.

Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, etc. (see cunning), deceitful, politic, shifty, insidious.

adjective. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.

adjective. Artificial; imitative.

adjective. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

adjective. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty. [The usual sense.]

adjective. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.

adjective. Artificial; imitative.

adjective. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

adjective. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

adjective. marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft