artful 音标拼音: ['ɑrtfəl]
a . 巧妙的,狡猾的
巧妙的,狡猾的
artful adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
disingenuous }, {
artful }]
[
ant : {
artless }, {
ingenuous }]
2 :
marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft ; "
the artful dodger "; "
an artful choice of metaphors " [
ant : {
artless }]
Artful \
Art "
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a . [
From {
Art }.]
1 .
Performed with ,
or characterized by ,
art or skill .
[
Archaic ] "
Artful strains ." "
Artful terms ." --
Milton .
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2 .
Artificial ;
imitative . --
Addison .
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3 .
Using or exhibiting much art ,
skill ,
or contrivance ;
dexterous ;
skillful .
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He [
was ]
too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order . --
Dryden .
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4 .
Cunning ;
disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing ;
crafty ;
as ,
an artful boy . [
The usual sense .]
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Artful in speech ,
in action ,
and in mind . --
Pope .
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The artful revenge of various animals . --
Darwin .
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Syn :
Cunning ;
skillful ;
adroit ;
dexterous ;
crafty ;
tricky ;
deceitful ;
designing .
See {
Cunning }.
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "
artful ":
Byzantine ,
Machiavellian ,
Machiavellic ,
acute ,
adroit ,
ambidextrous ,
arch ,
astute ,
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 ,
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
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