Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an artful manner. With art or skill: as, colors artfully distributed on the canvas.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an artful manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an artful manner
- adv. in a disingenuous manner
- adv. in an artful manner
Etymologies
- artful + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Blending wood and steel together, artfully, is something to behold.”
“In his Sunday speech to the nation, President Bush once again artfully attempted to suggest a connection between deposing Saddam Hussein and the war on terror that began with the September 11th attacks:”
“They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution.”
“Courtesy The Millicent Rogers Museum Rogers in artfully stacked turquoise cuffs.”
“Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry.”
“Visually, the show borrows shamelessly from the comic book artist's toolbox, right down to episode titles artfully superimposed on walls or the hoods of cars, but it also makes excellent use of television's unique capabilities as a cinematic medium.”
“Amnon spoke of Tamar as "his sister," a term artfully designed to hoodwink his father; and the request appeared so natural, the delicate appetite of a sick man requiring to be humored, that the king promised to send her.”
“And THAT gets about 28\% of the recommends of my 500 word artfully constructed post that inspired skedant's lazy, half-arsed haiku?!!!”
“Ability to write some good stuff in English artfully.”
“It has to be done "artfully", of course, but it has to be done -- now!”
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