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Artful vs Versute - What's the difference?

artful | versute |

As adjectives the difference between artful and versute

is that artful is performed with, or characterized by, art or skill while versute is crafty; wily; artful.

artful

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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 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. }}

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    Derived terms

    * artful dodger * artfully * artfulness

    versute

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • crafty; wily; artful
  • * 1851 , John James Blunt, Undesigned coincidences in the writings both of the Old and New Testament (page 12)
    • a more versute and specious forgery
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