artfully
巧妙地,艺术地,巧妙的,艺术性地
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Definitions
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- : slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- : skillful or clever in adapting means to ends; ingenious: an artful choice of metaphors and similes.
- : done with or characterized by art or skill: artful acting; artful repairs.
- : Archaic. artificial.
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Examples
In Nigeria, she earned a reputation as a corruption fighter as well as an artful dealmaker, helping negotiate a write off of $18 billion in national debt.
He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without—I suspect—without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
In another, she wears flippers while topless and curled artfully into a chair.
Some of us would like it to do more with less —more nimbly, more artfully.
Middle-class desperation simmers artfully in “Can I Just Sit Here for a While?”
It artfully preserves timeless questions about the nature of love, too.
The stranger turned, and stared at Garnache with a look of wonder that artfully changed to one of disdainful recognition.
He eyed her artfully, winked playfully, and continued: "You'll like it when you get the modesty out of yourself."
As they climbed the hill-stair Stone artfully trimmed the ragged edges of his wife's discontent.
You have been informed how artfully the conspiracy was carried on, and how I arrived eight and forty hours after I came.
Myrtle, youre looking as fresh as the first roses, said King OLeary artfully.