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Synonyms for artfully

in a disingenuous manner

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How delicate in his attentions, and yet how artfully has he concealed his anxiety on my account under a feigned desire for sleep, thought Julia.
"Remnants," she sighed, and showed me how artfully they had been pieced together.
This flattering suggestion not only pleased Emily--it artfully served Mirabel's purpose.
His questioning was so artfully contrived, that he seemed even in his own eyes to volunteer all this information rather than to have it wrested from him; and he was brought to this state of feeling so naturally, that when Mr Chester yawned at length and declared himself quite wearied out, he made a rough kind of excuse for having talked so much.
Artfully expressing the emotional rhythm by which the inarticulate majority lives, Callaghan moves effortlessly through alternating memories and realities with his signature style of tactile and visually fanciful prose.
Summary: The snake was "artfully concealed" inside a hard drive
Chiayi fireman Lu Tseng-hsien and his fiancee Wang Yu-ching artfully pose next to a firetruck for their engagement photos.
CBP officials told the Post that the money was "artfully concealed" in Kazazi's luggage and bore evidence of multiple ATM withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements.
Artfully use the clothespin to clip your place cards to your folded napkin.
The new experiences and complicated feelings that are the rite of passage through which early adolescents must tread are artfully told through engaging and plausible characters.
And, speaking of that dinner--it seems now to be officially called the "JJ Dinner" by the NHDP, which has artfully (or maybe not-so-artfully) avoided using the names "Jefferson" and "Jackson," who have become personas-non-grata among certain Dems.
Crouching tigress Zhang Ziyi calls his bluff in a magnificent martial arts epic, artfully conflating Kurosawa's Rashomon and Ran.
The Berries and Moss Wreath is made with a blend of fresh fir and seeded eucalyptus--and artfully adorned with pine cones, moss, Artemisia, and pepperberries.
The "ghost" of the book's title is mentioned in a letter attributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, the most prominent of several classic poets who become part of the story, to a greater or lesser degree: "A ghost is but a stranded coil of information in an era hostile to it." A parallel can be seen between Rider and the "ghost" in this quote; Cotler makes a statement on the chaos of 21st-century life, but it is artfully concealed, and artfully revealed.