2designed or done in a clever and attractive way 精巧的,巧妙的
artful photographs
技巧高超的照片
—artfullyadverbadv
artfully concealed pockets
隐藏巧妙的口袋
—artfulness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
artful• Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domesticbirth rate would seem slightly artful.• The script is an artfuladaptation of a novel by Rosa Guy.• She was as artful at that as at so many other things.• Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artfuldodgersready to graduate into serious crime and a moralvacuum.• He noticed the artfulmake-up, the elegant hair style.• artful misrepresentations• To get from originalpencil and watercolor drawings to finishedrolls of wallpaper took a series of artfulsteps.• But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight.• No, let such fellows as Williams be taken in by her artful wiles!