单词 | artful |
释义 | art·ful 1. a. < so artful is the choice of detail that the reader is given the illusion of having lived through every painful minute of the lengthy trial — Howard Haycraft > b. < the wording a shade too clever, the vowel-patterns too artful — Times Literary Supplement > c. (1) < artful vases and pitchers — N.Y.Times > (2) < she hit upon an artful conjecture — George Meredith > 2. a. < something more than the mere artful prose stylist he is so often considered — David Daiches > b. < many an artful shipmaster who thought the barristers were fools … has seen his nautical evidence torn to shreds by a lawyer who had never been to sea — N.Y.Herald Tribune > Synonyms: see sly |
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