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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1. Patrick Shanahan:

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

2. 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.

3. Saadi Shirazi:

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

4. 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.

5. 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.