Synonyms: artful
Definition: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
Usage: the artful dodger; an artful choice of metaphors
Similar words: tricksy, tricky, foxy, knavish, dodgy, crafty, cunning, wily, slick, sly, guileful
Definition: marked by skill in deception
Usage: cunning men often pass for wise; deep political machinations; a foxy scheme; a slick evasive answer; sly as a fox; tricky Dick; a wily old attorney
Definition: obviously contrived to charm
Usage: an insufferably precious performance; a child with intolerably cute mannerisms
Similar words: designing, scheming
Definition: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
Usage: a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue- W.Churchill; a scheming wife; a scheming gold digger
Similar words: deep
Definition: exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
Usage: deep political machinations; a deep plot
Similar words: elusive
Definition: skillful at eluding capture
Usage: a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist- David Kline
Similar words: manipulative
Definition: skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
Usage: the early manipulative techniques of a three-year-old child
Similar words: pawky
Definition: cunning and sly
Usage: the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants- Punch
Synonyms: artful, disingenuous
Definition: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
Usage: an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time- David Cannadine; a disingenuous excuse
Similar words: distorted, perverted, misrepresented, twisted
Definition: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
Usage: many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality; a perverted translation of the poem