Difference between Artful and Astute

ARTFUL vs ASTUTE: ADJECTIVE

Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
Exhibiting art or skill.
Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.
Artificial.
Marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty. [The usual sense.]
Artificial; imitative.

Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to one's own concerns. : shrewd.
Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.
Quickly and critically discerning
Shrewd or crafty

Done with or characterized by art or skill.
Not straightforward or candid
Artificial, as opposed to natural; produced or producing by art: as, “too artful a writer,” Dryden, Life of Virgil.
Skilful, Of persons, skilful in adapting means to ends; adroit.
Of things, skilfully adapted; ingenious; clever.
Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, etc. (see cunning), deceitful, politic, shifty, insidious.
Cunning; crafty; practising or characterized by art or stratagem: as, “the Artful Dodger,” Dickens, Oliver Twist.

Synonyms Sagacious, Sage, Knowing, Astute, Subtle. Sagacious and sage are used only in good senses, and when applied to persons generally suggest the wisdom of age or experience. The knowing man has wide knowledge and often penetration. The word knowing has also a humorous cast: as, he gave me a knowing wink; it may be used ironically: as, he is a little too knowing, that is, he thinks he knows more than he does; it may be used of knowing more than one has a right to know; it sometimes suggests a disposition to make ill use of knowledge: as, a knowing leer. Astute is often the same as sagacious, but is susceptible of an unfavorable sense in the direction of a narrow shrewdness, slyness, or cunning; it often means a sagacity that knows how to be silent; it is frequently applied to looks. Subtle, in its good sense, implies great acuteness, delicacy, or refinement in mental action: as, a subtle reasoner. For its bad sense, see cunning.
Of keen penetration or discernment; cunning; sagacious.

Twisted, Manipulative, Tricky, Cute, Wily, Byzantine, Slick, Guileful, Cunning, Sly, Tricksy, Crafty, Adroit, Ingenious, Clever

Judicious, Cunning, Intelligent, Crafty, Clever, Insightful, Incisive, Skilful, Skillful, Adroit, Perceptive, Canny, Sharp, Smart, Shrewd

Twisted, Manipulative, Tricky, Cute, Wily, Byzantine, Slick, Guileful, Cunning, Sly, Tricksy, Crafty, Adroit, Ingenious, Clever

Judicious, Cunning, Intelligent, Crafty, Clever, Insightful, Incisive, Skilful, Skillful, Adroit, Perceptive, Canny, Sharp, Smart, Shrewd

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