ARTFUL

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton.

Artificial; imitative. Addison.

Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. Dryden.

Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.] Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. Pope. The artful revenge of various animals. Darwin.