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单词 artfully
释义 ˈartfully, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In an artful manner, with skill or art.
1613Middleton Tri. Truth in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 453 Hence is Artfully derived the onely difference betweene Prodigality and Bounty.1711Steele Spect. No. 33 ⁋10 Colours artfully spread upon Canvas may entertain the eye.1835Lytton Rienzi iii. ii. 167 Brightly polished and artfully flexile armour.
2. Cunningly, craftily, by underhand means.
1744H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann 100 (1834) I. 337 The French fled shamefully, that was I suppose designedly and artfully.1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 63 In these fatal follies the King was artfully encouraged.
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