Definition of Artful

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Artful

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.

Artificial; imitative.

Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]

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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

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

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne Clarkson

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
Elizabeth Banks

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
Gerald Clarke

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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