Art"ful (?), a. [From Art.]
1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or
skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms."
Milton.
2. Artificial; imitative.
Addison.
3. 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.
4. 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.
Syn. -- Cunning; skillful; adroit; dexterous; crafty; tricky;
deceitful; designing. See Cunning.