7 example sentences using artful.
Artful used in a sentence
Artful in a sentence as an adjective
Just that it's difficult to do in an artful way.
That's like saying "there can be artful snuff films".hang on, sir/madam.
The point is not to show how how clever or artful you are, it is to make your points in ways that will stick.
I worked with a guy once who wrote brilliant code, artful, efficient, and very few bugs.
It's what the NYT, CNN, etc... should be doing instead of screwing around with more artful ways of presenting puff pieces ie: "snow fall".
It can be artful at times, but it seldom communicates any information, or real emotion, and is a waste of the reader's bandwidth.
If this piece is displayed publicly, such that anyone who is willing can work for minimum wage, what sort of artful, philosophical statement would be made when one enterprising individual attaches a solar powered motor to the crank?
Artful definitions
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
See also: disingenuous
marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"