0 clever and skilful, especially in getting what you want:
1 intelligent and skillful, esp. in persuading, sometimes without being completely honest:
His politics was an artful blend of high-minded patriotism and malicious gossip about his opponents.
He was a wilful virtuoso, yet an artful manager of men, happy to trade on the superstition of others.
At one and the same time intricate, artful, and accurate, they spoke authority.
An artful contrast is thereby developed between two homophones denoting the speaker's material substance and the male protagonist's spiritual character.
In many ways it is almost easier for them to deal with an artist rather than an artful architect.
He remarks that it is one of several such recurring themes in the opera, treated 'often with striking harmonic turns, or in artful juxtapositions'.
We see just how far it had come since its days of artful dreams.
Through composing this image of rationality and ethicality, psychological expertise can promise to make authority simultaneously artful and wholesome.
Sustaining legitimacy is the most difficult part of governing because it requires the most artful engagement with the public and elites.
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