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artful
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1 artful
Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness.
synoniem: disingenuous.
Roget 702:
cunning,
crafty,
artful;
skillful
etc.
698;
subtle,
feline,
vulpine;
cunning as a fox,
cunning as a serpent;
deep,
deep laid;
profound;
designing,
contriving;
intriguing
etc.
v.;
strategic,
diplomatic,
politic,
Machiavelian,
timeserving†;
artificial;
tricky,
tricksy†;
wily,
sly,
slim,
insidious,
stealthy;
underhand
etc.
(hidden)
528;
subdolous†;
deceitful
etc.
545;
slippery as an eel,
evasive
etc.
623;
crooked;
arch,
pawky†,
shrewd,
acute;
sharp,
sharp as a tack,
sharp as a needle†;
canny,
astute,
leery,
knowing,
up to snuff,
too clever by half,
not to be caught with chaff.
tactful,
diplomatic,
politic;
polite
etc.
894.
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Roget 544:
false,
deceitful,
mendacious,
unveracious,
fraudulent,
dishonest,
faithless,
truthless,
trothless;
unfair,
uncandid;
hollow-hearted;
evasive;
uningenuous,
disingenuous;
hollow,
sincere,
Parthis mendacior;
forsworn.
artificial,
contrived;
canting;
hypocritical,
jesuitical,
pharisaical;
tartuffish;
Machiavelian;
double,
double tongued,
double faced,
double handed,
double minded,
double hearted,
double dealing;
Janus faced;
smooth-faced,
smooth spoken,
smooth tongued;
plausible;
mealy-mouthed;
affected
etc.
855.
collusive,
collusory;
artful
etc.
(cunning)
702;
perfidious
etc.
940;
spurious
etc.
(deceptive)
545;
untrue
etc.
546;
falsified
etc.
v.;
covinous.
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Roget 894:
courteous,
polite,
civil,
mannerly,
urbane;
well-behaved,
well-mannered,
well-bred,
well-brought up;
good-mannered,
polished,
civilized,
cultivated;
refined
etc.
(taste)
850;
gentlemanlike
etc.
(fashion)
852†;
gallant;
on one's good behavior.
fine spoken,
fair spoken,
soft-spoken;
honey-mouthed,
honey-tongued;
oily,
bland;
obliging,
conciliatory,
complaisant,
complacent;
obsequious
etc.
886.
ingratiating,
winning;
gentle,
mild;
good-humored,
cordial,
gracious,
affable,
familiar;
neighborly.
diplomatic,
tactful,
politic;
artful
etc.
702.
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Nederlands: onoprecht
2 artful
Marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adroit, ambidextrous, arch, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, dexterous, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, duplicitous, facile, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted, feline, finagling, forsworn, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, inventive, knowing, oily, pawky, perfidious, perjured, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, specious, stealthy, strategic, suave, subtile, subtle, superficial, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful, vulpine, wary, wily ... meer laten zien.
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