artfula.[From Art.]1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.(Milton.)2. Artificial; imitative.(Addison.)3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.()He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. (Dryden.)4. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]()Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. (Pope.)The artful revenge of various animals. (Darwin.)()