Artful

Art·ful

Artful

a.
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic]
  2. Artificial; imitative.
  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.
  4. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
    Artful in speech, in action, and in mind.
    The artful revenge of various animals.