artful

adj. shrewd, clever; sly, wily; deceitful; skillful

Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) disingenuous
(similar) distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted
(see-also) insincere
2. marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
(antonym) artless
(similar) adroit, clever, ingenious
(see-also) adroit

(a.)
Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
  

(a.)
Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
  

(a.)
Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
  

(a.)
Artificial; imitative.
  

adj.
چھليا , فريبي , عيار , فيلسوسف , متفني
An artful fellow is the devil in a doublet. (Prov.)
بڑا عيار شيطان کا يارadj.
artfully
چھل سے , عياري سے , چالاکي سے

Synonyms and related words:
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,