Crossword clues for artfully
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artfully \Art"ful*ly\, adv. In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
Wiktionary
adv. In an artful manner.
WordNet
adv. in an artful manner; "her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes"
in a disingenuous manner; "disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work" [syn: disingenuously]
in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily]
Usage examples of "artfully".
It was more agreeable to his temper, as well as to his policy, to reign under the venerable names of ancient magistracy, and artfully to collect, in his own person, all the scattered rays of civil jurisdiction.
It is easy for faction and calumny to shed their poison on the administration of the best of princes, and to accuse even their virtues by artfully confounding them with those vices to which they bear the nearest affinity.
He artfully insinuated, that the office of censor was inseparable from the Imperial dignity, and that the feeble hands of a subject were unequal to the support of such an immense weight of cares and of power.
The horses, as well as the men, were clothed in complete armor, the joints of which were artfully adapted to the motions of their bodies.
So artfully were they framed and disposed throughout the year, that superstition always wore the appearance of pleasure, and often of virtue.
The patriotic Cyprian, who ruled with the most absolute sway the church of Carthage and the provincial synods, opposed with resolution and success the ambition of the Roman pontiff, artfully connected his own cause with that of the eastern bishops, and, like Hannibal, sought out new allies in the heart of Asia.
The actual account employed several hundred persons, distributed into eleven different offices, which were artfully contrived to examine and control their respective operations.
Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the Catholic church.
The indiscretion of his predecessor, instead of reconciling, had artfully fomented the religious war: and the balance which he affected to preserve between the hostile factions, served only to perpetuate the contest, by the vicissitudes of hope and fear, by the rival claims of ancient possession and actual favor.
The cautious steps of their enemies, their strict alliance, and their advantageous posts, he artfully represented as the effects, not of prudence, but of fear.
The clergy artfully confounded the mosque or church of the temple with the holy sepulchre, and their willful error has deceived both Vertot and Muratori.
Art blurted out his doings, his thoughts, in a completely honest, ingenuous manner that irritated those social groups who prefer conversational sparring and the artfully phoney commercial facades.
He artfully fashioned a waxen mask and loose costume enabling him to pass among men as a human being of a sort, and devised a doubly potent spell with which to hold back the Dholes at the moment of his starting from the dead, black Yaddith of the inconceivable future.
Renfield artfully waited until the attendant was entering the room to inspect.
Wing Goy satisfied himself that no one was in the artfully concealed hiding place.