Synonyms of the word

artful

• adj. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
• adj. Artificial; imitative.
• adj. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
• adj. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.].

adroit

• adj. Deft, dexterous, or skillful.

clever

• adj. Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
• adj. Resourceful, sometimes to the point of cunning.
• adj. Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
• adj. Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
• adj. (anthropology, of an Aboriginal Australian) Possessing magical abilities.
• adj. (obsolete) Fit; suitable; having propriety.
• adj. (obsolete) Well-shaped; handsome.
• adj. (US, dated) Good-natured; obliging.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.

crafty

• adj. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
• adj. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
• adj. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.

cunning

• adj. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
• adj. (obsolete) Skillful, artful.
• adj. (obsolete) Wrought with, or exibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
• adj. (US, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing.
• n. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
• n. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
• n. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being…
• n. The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).

cute

• adj. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed…
• adj. Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
• adj. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
• adj. Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see acute.

deep

• adj. (heading, of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
• adj. (heading, intellectual, social) Complex, involved.
• adj. (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
• adj. (of a color) Dark and highly saturated.
• adj. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
• adj. Immersed, submerged (in).
• adj. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
• adv. Deeply.
• n. (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
• n. (rare) A deep shade of colour.
• n. (US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
• n. (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.

designing

• v. present participle of design.
• adj. artful; scheming.
• n. A process of design.

disingenuous

• adj. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
• adj. Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
• adj. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.

distorted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of distort.

dodgy

• adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) evasive and shifty.
• adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) unsound and unreliable.
• adj. dishonest.
• adj. risky.
• adj. deviant.
• adj. uncomfortable and weird.

elusive

• adj. Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
• adj. Rarely seen.
• adj. Difficult to describe.

evasive

• adj. Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
• adj. Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action.

foxy

• adj. having the qualities of a fox.
• adj. attractive, sexy (of a woman).
• adj. (of a person) red-haired.
• adj. (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.

guileful

• adj. Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.

ingenious

• adj. Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
• adj. Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
• adj. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

insincere

• adj. Not genuinely meaning what has been expressed; not sincere; artificial.
• adj. Not serious.

knavish

• adj. Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.

manipulative

• adj. Using manipulation purposefully.
• adj. Tending to manipulate others.
• adj. (pejorative) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
• n. A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.

misrepresented

• v. simple past tense and past participle of misrepresent.

pawky

• adj. (Scotland, northern Britain) Shrewd, sly; often also as characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour.

perverted

• adj. deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
• adj. (pejorative, offensive) of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
• adj. misrepresented, altered or distorted.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of pervert.

precious

• adj. Of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such.
• adj. Regarded with love or tenderness.
• adj. (pejorative) Treated with too much reverence.
• adj. (pejorative) Contrived to be cute or charming.
• n. Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
• adv. Very; an intensifier.

scheming

• v. present participle of scheme.
• adj. (pejorative) Tending to scheme.

slick

• adj. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
• adj. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
• adj. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
• adj. (often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
• adj. (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. sleek; smooth.
• n. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
• n. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
• n. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
• n. (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
• n. (US, military slang) A helicopter.
• n. (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative…
• n. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
• v. To make slick.

sly

• adj. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
• adj. (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful;…
• adj. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle.
• adj. Light or delicate; slight; thin.
• adv. Slyly.

tricksy

• adj. Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.

tricky

• adj. hard to deal with, complicated.
• adj. adept at using deception.
• adj. (colloquial, slang) Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick.

twisted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of twist.
• adj. Contorted.
• adj. Wound spirally.
• adj. Mentally disturbed or unsound.
• adj. Under the influence of multiple intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana.

wily

• adj. sly, cunning, full of tricks.