ARTFUL in a Sentence

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360 example sentences for ARTFUL, such as:

1. Poverty is the mother of all arts.
2. He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
3. The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister.
4. It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
5. He argued that the arts have great social utility.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARTFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
artful
 a.  not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
 a.  marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No one could be more dominating than stout Mrs. Merriwether, more imperious than frail Mrs. Elsing, more artful in securing her own ends than the silver-haired sweet-voiced Mrs. Whiting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  It was then that Cora saw the form of Magua gliding among his countrymen, and speaking with his fatal and artful eloquence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  The sudden return of this artful and dreaded chief caused a delay in the departure of the Huron.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
4  Dropping the light robe of skin from his shoulder, he stretched forth his arm, and commenced a burst of his dangerous and artful eloquence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
5  He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  This artful allusion to benefits conferred brought Tupman to his feet, looking as if he had quite made up his mind.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
9  You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
10  "Me loves Parpar," said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
11  The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  Sarah Pocket and Georgiana contended who should remain last; but Sarah was too knowing to be outdone, and ambled round Georgiana with that artful slipperiness that the latter was obliged to take precedence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
14  Not but what he's artful, even in his defiance of them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
15  This extremely artful suggestion Mr. Barkis accompanied with a nudge of his elbow that gave me quite a stitch in my side.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Example Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
16  Apollo was the Greek god of the arts, prophecy, medicine and light.
17  Her new TV show will be a potpourri of arts and media reports.
18  Poverty is the mother of all arts.
19  At school I was quite good at arts, but hopeless at science.
20  Music and arts have always played the key role in my life.
21  Philosophers did not use to make a distinction between arts and science.
22  He argued that the arts have great social utility.
23  He conceived the idea of transforming the old power station into an arts centre.
24  The balance performed by the Shaolin monks have insisted to inspire many Hong Kong and Hollywood martial arts movies.
25  They have their charms, and magic arts, and rites in exorcism and other things.
26  The library's main aim is to educate and inspire children who have seen arts education cut from their school.
27  Two years ago, he signed over his art collection to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
28  The emerging science of photography was already changing fashions in art.
29  They appear masters in the art of making regulations work their way.
30  It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.