adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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artful misrepresentations
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The script is an artful adaptation of a novel by Rosa Guy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight.
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Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful .
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He noticed the artful make-up, the elegant hair style.
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No, let such fellows as Williams be taken in by her artful wiles!
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She was as artful at that as at so many other things.
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To get from original pencil and watercolor drawings to finished rolls of wallpaper took a series of artful steps.
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Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.