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What does artful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word artful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
  2. Artificial; imitative.
  3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
  4. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
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If you look out for artful and dishonest sorts, you will probably spare yourself a big fiscal setback.
Both the books and the films are artful and entertaining, but also more than a little bit campy, like zoot suits and swing dancing.
I wouldn't dispute the accuracy, I just thought it was remarkably artful, and would expect nothing less of you, Ari.
United and Arsenal both discovered to their cost just how artful and ruthless this double act can be.
This is an album marked by artful explosions of white noise and moments of utter chaos and collapse.
He tried an artful variant on the same trick by announcing a stunning personnel decision on the day before Thanksgiving.

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