artful

Adjective

• marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
  • the artful dodger
    
  • an artful choice of metaphors
    

• not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
  • an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time- David Cannadine
    
  • a disingenuous excuse
    

Related words

• Antonyms: 
  artless , ingenuous