Artful
[adj] marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
[adj] not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
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Synonyms
adroit, Byzantine, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, distorted, dodgy, elusive, evasive, foxy, guileful, ingenious, knavish, manipulative, misrepresented, pawky, perverted, precious, scheming, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, twist
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acute, adroit, ambidextrous, arch, astute, Byzantine, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, dexterous, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, double