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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “ARTFULLY”

ARTFULLY adv.
In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
ARTIFICIALLY adv.
Craftily; artfully. [Obs.] Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
CRAFTILY adv.
With craft; artfully; cunningly.
CURIOUS a.
Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. To devise curious works. Ex. xxxv. 32 His body couched in a curious bed. Shak.
DIPLOMATICALLY adv.
According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.
INSINUATE v.
To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill. All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the seve…
MACHINATE v.
To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. "How long will you machinate!" Sandys.
MANIPULATE v.
to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
MYSTERY n.
Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
PALAVER v.
o used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bront
PARALEIPSIS n.
A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis…
POLITICALLY adv.
Politicly; artfully. [Obs.] Knolles.
POLITICLY adv.
In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.
SALT v.
the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant] -- To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay…
SLY a.
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess. Spenser.
SUBTLY adv.
In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly. Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise. Milton.
WITTILY adv.
In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.