Synonyms for artful
ˈɑrt fəlart·ful

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1. artful

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

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

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1. artful

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

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

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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"

   Synonyms:
   disingenuous

   Antonyms:
   careless, artless

2. artfuladjective

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

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

   Synonyms:
   disingenuous

   Antonyms:
   artless, careless

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1. artfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   skilful, ingenious, dexterous

2. artfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   cunning, crafty, astute, shrewd, sharp, wily, sly, foxy, snaky, subtle, arch, insidious, designing, intriguing, politic, deceitful, trickish, TRICKY, diplomatic, machiavelian

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1. artfuladjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "artful":

   clever

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How to use artful in a sentence?

1. Saadi Shirazi:

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

2. 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.

3. Patrick Shanahan:

   It's a very difficult situation and... we're going to have to be artful to manage this.

4. 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.

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.