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shrewd
Having or showing a clever awareness or resourcefulness, especially in practical matters.
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  1. Having or showing a clever awareness or resourcefulness, especially in practical matters.
  2. Disposed to or marked by artful and cunning practices; tricky.
  3. Artful, tricky or cunning
cunning
Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
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  1. Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
  2. Skillful in deception; sly; crafty
  3. (Now Rare) Skillful or clever
clever
Handsome, convenient, nice, etc.
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  1. Handsome, convenient, nice, etc.
  2. Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands:
  3. Exhibiting ingenuity or imagination; creative or artful:
adroit
Dexterous, deft or skillful
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  1. Dexterous, deft or skillful
  2. Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
  3. Skillful in a physical or mental way; clever; expert
ingenious
Clever, resourceful, original, and inventive
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  1. Clever, resourceful, original, and inventive
  2. Having great inventive skill and imagination:
  3. Made or done in a clever or original way
adroit
Skillful in a physical or mental way; clever; expert
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  1. Skillful in a physical or mental way; clever; expert
  2. Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
  3. Dexterous, deft or skillful
deft
Skillful in a quick, sure, and easy way; dexterous
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  1. Skillful in a quick, sure, and easy way; dexterous
  2. Quick and skillful; adroit.
dexterous
Having or showing mental skill
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  1. Having or showing mental skill
  2. Done with dexterity:
  3. Having or showing skill in the use of the hands or body
skillful
Possessing or exercising skill; expert.
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  1. Possessing or exercising skill; expert.
  2. Having or showing skill; accomplished; expert
  3. Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill:
crafty
Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
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  1. Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
  2. Subtly deceitful; sly; cunning; artful
  3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
cunning
(Now Rare) Skillful or clever
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  1. (Now Rare) Skillful or clever
  2. Attractive or pretty in a delicate way; cute
  3. Skillful in deception; sly; crafty
foxy
Having the reddish-brown color of a fox
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  1. Having the reddish-brown color of a fox
  2. (Slang) Attractive, stylish, etc.; specif., sexually attractive
  3. Foxlike; crafty; wily; sly
guileful
Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
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  1. Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
scheming
(Pejorative) Tending to scheme.
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  1. (Pejorative) Tending to scheme.
  2. Given to forming schemes or plots; crafty, tricky, deceitful, etc.
sharp
Abrupt or acute:
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  1. Abrupt or acute:
  2. Strongly affecting the senses of smell and taste:
  3. Fierce or impetuous; violent:
sly
Playfully mischievous:
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  1. Playfully mischievous:
  2. (Dial.) Skillful or clever
  3. Skillful at trickery or deceit; crafty; wily
tricky
Hard to deal with, complicated
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  1. Hard to deal with, complicated
  2. Like a trick in deceptiveness or intricacy
  3. Requiring caution or skill:
wily
Sly, cunning, full of tricks
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  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks
  2. Full of wiles; crafty; sly
Find another word for artful. In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for artful, like: shrewd, cunning, wily, clever, adroit, ingenious, intelligent, sly, able, adroit and deft.

Sentence Examples

  • Oh yes, an artful tale!

  • His inspiration may be traced in some measure to the Pre-Raphaelites and also to Blake, Shelley and Maeterlinck; but he found in his native Irish legend and life matter apt for his romantic and often elfin music, with its artful simplicities and unhackneyed cadences, and its elusive, inconclusive charm.

  • All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches.

  • He grew up among enemies, and became artful, suspicious and self-controlled, concealing his feeling behind the mask of an immobile, almost repulsive, coldness.

  • After proclaiming his intention of conferring on his subjects the blessings of peace, he joined in 1798 an Anglo-Austrian coalition against France; but when Austria paid more attention to her own interests than to the interests of monarchical institutions in general, and when England did not respect the independence of Malta, which he had taken under his protection, he succumbed to the artful blandishments of Napoleon and formed with him a plan for ruining the British empire by the conquest of India.

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