Adverb
In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble. Nina Garcia
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. Alexander Herzen
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do. Jhumpa Lahiri
His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. "I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. "Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. Suzanne Collins
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. Marisha Pessl
You look like any other brainless jackanapes,” he mused, "but apparently there's some gray matter left in your artfully coiffed skull after all. Algis Budrys