ARTFUL


Meaning of ARTFUL in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

artful misrepresentations

The script is an artful adaptation of a novel by Rosa Guy.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight.

Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful .

He noticed the artful make-up, the elegant hair style.

No, let such fellows as Williams be taken in by her artful wiles!

She was as artful at that as at so many other things.

To get from original pencil and watercolor drawings to finished rolls of wallpaper took a series of artful steps.

Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.