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Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious.
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(RQ:Mill System of Logic)
Not naturally produced; artificial; imitative.
(RQ:Heywood Troia Britanica)'' to diſpaint / The perfect Image and true face of Sorrow, (..)
(RQ:Addison Rosamond)
(RQ:Emerson Poems)
Exhibiting or using much art or skill; dexterous; skilful.

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(RQ:Jonson Volpone)'s tales, / (..) / Then vvill I haue thee in more moderne formes, / Attired like ſome ſprightly dame of ''France'', / Braue ''Tuſcan'' lady, or proud ''Spaniſh'' beauty; / Sometimes, vnto the ''Perſian Sophies'' vvife; / Or the grand-''Signiors'' miſtreſſe; and, for change, / To one of our moſt art-full courtizans, (..)
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(RQ:Milton Comus) ''Eld''''er'' ''bro''''ther''. ''Thyrſis''? vvhoſe artfull ſtrains have oft delayed / The huddling brook to heare his madrigale, / And ſvveeten'd every muskroſe of the dale, (..)
(RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(RQ:Henry Four Million) Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace.
Skilful at using dishonest or unfair means to achieve a purpose; crafty, cunning.
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
(RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend)
(RQ:Henry Cabbages)
(quote-journal) back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau|editor=Alan Rusbridger|newspaper=The Guardian|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115072742/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jun/29/roger-federer-wimbledon-2012-julien-benneteau|archivedate=15 November 2016|location=London|publisher=Media Group|Guardian News & Media|date=29 June 2012|issn=0261-3077|oclc=229952407|passage=Where the Czech upstart Rosol|Lukáš Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew Nadal|Rafael Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, Benneteau|Julien Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight.
Knowledgeable about the arts; learned, wise.