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Definition of Artful

Artful

  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.]

Artful Quotations

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Paul Simon

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
David Cronenberg

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Herbert Croly

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.
Ali Smith

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
Ana Gasteyer
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Artful Translations

artful in French is artificieux
artful in German is kunstvoll, listig, hinterlistig
artful in Italian is astuto
artful in Spanish is superchero, ingenioso, ma ero
artful in Swedish is derfundig, listig

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