Word Meanings - ARTFULLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.

Related words: (words related to ARTFULLY)

• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• ARTFUL
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• ARTFULLY
  In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
• CRAFTILY
  With craft; artfully; cunningly.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• CUNNING
  1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii.
• CUNNER
  A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• DEXTEROUSLY
  In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• UNARTFUL
  Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke.
• SCUNNER
  To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
• UNCUNNING
  Ignorant. I am young and uncunning, as thou wost . Chaucer.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• STARTFUL
  Apt to start; skittish.