Antonyms for artful
ˈɑrt fəlart·ful

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1. artful

   Antonyms:
   aboveboard, artless, candid, fair, frank, guileless, honest, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unbiased, unprejudiced, unreserved, unsophisticated

   Synonyms:
   adroit, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, insincere, intriguing, knowing, maneuvering, sharp, shrewd, sly, subtle, tricky, wily

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1. artful

   Antonyms:
   simple, undesigning, artless, open, innocent, unsophisticated

   Synonyms:
   cunning, designing, maneuvering, sharp, knowing, subtle, sly, crafty, wily, shrewd

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1. disingenuous, artfuladjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   careless, artless

   Synonyms:
   disingenuous

2. artfuladjective

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

   "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

   Antonyms:
   artless, careless

   Synonyms:
   disingenuous

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1. artfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   designing, crafty, diplomatic, disingenuous, ingenious, dexterous, politic

How to use artful in a sentence?

1. Charles Evans:

   Unfortunately that still leaves a lot of room for guess work ... because the inflation environment right now is meager, it ends up being a very individual assessment. ... It still ends up being artful.

2. Wasserman Schultz:

   The use of the term 'low blow' or 'artful smear,' both were applied to the aftermath of a substantive discussion, which the Republicans have not engaged in in any of their debates, their debates have been insult-fests, in which they've mostly engaged in personal attacks.

3. Samuel Cooke:

   Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.

4. Saadi Shirazi:

   Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

5. Tim Scott:

   His rhetoric is not artful, to say the least, and at times he makes statements that I wish wasn't so divisive in that statement, but I think the need still remains. This started for us a year and a half ago or so. This is not new for us. This is not new for the nation.

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