Dictionary Entry
artful
artful is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
- 2adjective
Artificial; imitative.
- 3adjective
Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
- 4adjective
Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
- 5adjective
marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
"the artful dodger"
"an artful choice of metaphors"
- 6adjective
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness- David Cannadine
"an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"
"a disingenuous excuse"
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