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Artfulness

noun
1.
The quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage.






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"Artfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... other filled with hatred and yet calm, went to the embrasure of the window and leaned against the casing, one to right, the other to left, silent; but their feelings were expressed in such speaking glances that they averted their eyes and, with mutual artfulness, gazed through the window at the sky. These two great and superior women had, at this crisis, no greater art of behavior than the vulgarest of their sex. Perhaps it is always thus when circumstances arise which overwhelm the human being. There is, inevitably, a moment when genius itself ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac



Words linked to "Artfulness" :   artful, disingenuousness, artlessness, cunning



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