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Flatter :: Flatter (v. t.) To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle..

Cunning :: Cunning (a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

Artful :: Artful (a.) Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill..

Curious :: Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

Foxlike :: Foxlike (a.) Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.].

Artist :: Artist (n.) An artful person; a schemer.

Political :: Political (a.) Politic; wise; also, artful..

Insinuation :: Insinuation (n.) The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition..

Manoeuvre :: Manoeuvre (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.

Startfulness :: Startful (a.) Apt to start; skittish.

Machinate :: Machinate (v. i.) To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot..

Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Undesigning :: Undesigning (a.) Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple..

Politic :: Politic (a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons..

Legerdemain :: Legerdemain (n.) Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick..

Unartful :: Unartful (a.) Lacking art or skill; artless.

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

Sleight :: Sleight (n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.

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