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artfuladjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansthe artful lawyer got the witness to admit he had been lying beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventingthat kitchen gadget is an artful tool for extracting cherry pits clever, creative, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inventive adventurous, fresh, groundbreaking, novel, original, visionarycleverish, gadgety, gimmickyconvenient, handy, neat, nifty, practical, usefulcomplex, sophisticatedadroit, deft, dexterous(also dextrous), expert, handsome, trickybrainy, intelligent, sharp, smart uncreative, unimaginative dull, pedantic, pedestrian, stodgyassembly-line, canned, cookie-cutter, derivative, hackneyed, unoriginalimpractical, useless accomplished with trained abilitythat was an artful way to handle a very delicate situation adroit, bravura, deft, delicate, dexterous(also dextrous), expert, masterful, masterly, practiced(also practised), skillful, virtuoso, workmanlike facile, smoothartistic, creative, fancy, ingenious, neatadept, clever, cunningable, adequate, capable, competent amateur, amateurish, artless, rude, unprofessional, unskillful awkward, clumsy, crude, klutzyineffective, ineffectualincompetent, inept sly, cunning, crafty, wily, tricky, foxy, artful, slick mean attaining or seeking to attain one's ends by guileful or devious means.sly implies furtiveness, lack of candor, and skill in concealing one's aims and methods.a sly corporate raider cunning suggests the inventive use of sometimes limited intelligence in overreaching or circumventing.the cunning fox avoided the trap crafty implies cleverness and subtlety of method.a crafty lefthander wily implies skill and deception in maneuvering.the wily fugitive escaped the posse tricky is more likely to suggest shiftiness and unreliability than skill in deception and maneuvering.a tricky political operative foxy implies a shrewd and wary craftiness usually involving devious dealing.a foxy publicity man planting stories artful implies indirectness in dealing and often connotes sophistication or cleverness.elicited the information by artful questioning slick emphasizes smoothness and guile.slick operators selling time-sharing in 1583 |