Artful Dodger
Example Sentences
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The situation is complicated by the arrival of Omicron, which has proved an artful dodger of vaccines, leaving public health officials warning that a booster shot is necessary to blunt the disease’s worst effects.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
The sense of compromise in some of his orchestral recordings can be hard to shake off; one Times critic called him “the most artful dodger of major issues now before the public.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
Roberts, an artful dodger, understands all of this.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2018
The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger."
From Time Magazine Archive
The "artful dodger," in "Oliver Twist," is a picture of the average criminal.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
