Artful
41artful — a. Cunning, crafty, wily, subtle, insidious, designing, intriguing, politic, diplomatic, Machiavelian, deceitful, trickish, tricky, sly, foxy, snaky …
42artful — adj 1. cunning, crafty, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Sl. crazy like a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, astute, canny, sharp, knowing. 2. insidious, guileful, disingenuous, scheming, plotting, calculating, contriving, designing; deceitful,… …
43artful — art·ful …
44artful — art•ful [[t]ˈɑrt fəl[/t]] adj. 1) slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky 2) skillful or clever in adapting means to ends; ingenious 3) done with or characterized by art or skill 4) archaic artificial • Etymology: 1605–15 art′ful•ly, adv.… …
45artful — Ma alea …
46artful — adj. (of a person or action) crafty, deceitful. Derivatives: artfully adv. artfulness n …
47Artful Dodger — a character in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He is a young thief who steals things from people’s pockets, and is one of the group of thieves that Oliver joins. * * * …
48Artful Dodger — Synonyms and related words: Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Philadelphia lawyer, Yankee horse trader, actor, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer, counterfeiter, crafty rascal, deceiver, deluder, dissembler,… …
49ARTFUL DODGER — a young thief, an expert in the profession in Dickens Oliver Twist …
50artful dodger — art|ful dod|ger noun count someone who is clever and manages to get out of difficult situations and avoid answering questions …
