Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness.
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I wanted the message to seem artless but also to get results.
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His simple pleasure touched Corinna like the artless joy of a child.
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Samuel-soartless and simple was the man and so pathetic his appeal.
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The artless sincerity and the soft sweet voice quite nonplused Aunt Priscilla.
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Meanwhile, Billy Freeman was looking at him with open and artless curiosity.
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Allow the artful Dodge, for example, to explain his onfield decision-making role.
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Unfortunately for the party, no Liberal leader since has been so artful.
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The style is excellent, simple, unaffected; the method admirable, artful, and judicious.
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Her thoughts ran violently in the direction suggested by the artful letter.
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The images come across as cool, dispassionate documentations rather than artful inventions.
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People were very artful when they made hiding places in those days.
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Ahead on the left was the first artful pile of shipping containers.
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The home was an artful Craftsman design, two windows glowing with light.
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He proceeded in his purpose after a more artful and covert manner.
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She is either the most artful, or the most noble of women.
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We saw no indication of the artful management which characterizes most conventions.
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It is not now the time for little contrivances, or artful politics.
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This proceeding Sampson and I considered to be very artful and ingenious.
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Acting on it he asked, with an artful appearance of friendly interest:
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There are just something even the most artful of dodgers can't escape.
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His first uneasy thought was that it was a very artful move.
