Artful vs Manoeuvring - What's the difference?
artful | manoeuvring | Synonyms |
Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
Artificial; imitative.
Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
*{{quote-news, year=2012
, date=June 29
, author=Kevin Mitchell
, title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau
, work=the Guardian
A manoeuvre.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 14, author=Chantal Hébert, title=NDP can expect a bumpy ride with Stephen Harper, work=Toronto Star
, passage=The immediate consequence of the high-wire political manoeuvrings of the past two weeks is that today MPs are returning to a destabilized Parliament.}}
As an adjective artful
is performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.As a noun manoeuvring is
a manoeuvre.As a verb manoeuvring is
present participle of lang=en.artful
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Where the Czech upstart Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight. }}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* artful dodger * artfully * artfulnessmanoeuvring
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Noun
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