Dictionary Entry

artful

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈɑːɹt.fəl/Used In Literature ↓

Cunning; tending toward indirect dealings; crafty.

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Common Phrases

dodger artful. artfuluse artfulmanner artfulwoman artfulway artful

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Poetry examples for “artful”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Whose wide, self-dissipating wave,
Prison'd in artful dykes,
Trembling returns and strikes

That they may render back
Artful thunder, which conveys
Secrets of the solar track,

Behold our future sultaness, Abdalla;--
Let artful flatt'ry now, to lull suspicion,
Glide, through Irene, to the sultan's ear.

THE life of the Earl of Halifax was properly that of an artful and active
statesman, employed in balancing parties, contriving expedients, and

And broke the meditated lines of war.
Detested Cali, too, with artful wonder,
Would shake his wily head, and closely whisper,

Unnerve thy vigour, and unchain thy powers? 10
While artful shades thy downy couch inclose,
And soft solicitation courts repose,

Unnerve thy vigour, and unchain thy powers? 10
While artful shades thy downy couch inclose,
And soft solicitation courts repose,

Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark disputes and artful teazing.
Folly is an endless maze;

If he regard not, though divine the theme.
'Tis not in artful measures, in the chime
And idle tinkling of a minstrel's lyre,