artful

How To Use artful In A Sentence

• Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
• Despite the bright blue woodwork, the artfully painted sign, and the Fablon fishes which swim across the display window. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
• Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man. Times, Sunday Times
• Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders. Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
• Another person says: " Bellyful is the character of artful cheat.
• In a funky setting, explore artfully presented skewered meats, seafood and rice, perfumed with tamarind, coconut milk, anise, chillies, garlic and ginger.
• The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth. Rose in Bloom
• He goes to Bath, where Sir Walter is now established with his two elder daughters and Elizabeth's companion Mrs Clay, an artful woman with matrimonial designs on Sir Walter.
• His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
• A historical novel, it is no dutiful trudge - rather an artful waka, rowing fast and with purpose.