artifice
Origin of artifice
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gimmick, contrivance, duplicity, inventiveness, dodge, maneuver, play, scam, savvy, stratagem, machination, ploy, subterfuge, ruse, racket, tactic, expedient, device, wile, gambitExamples from the Web for artifice
Contemporary Examples of artifice
There is usually something transparent about the artifice required by famous artists trying to remain current.
The collection is by turn bizarre, hilarious, unpredictable, all of it without a single note of artifice.
Where Raphael constructed ideal women and made them seem normal and necessary, Dürer constructs ideal works of art and artifice.
He is unfailingly polite and contrite, still slightly awkward with the artifice of campaigning after all these years.
Of course, these photos also emphasize the artifice that lies behind documentation.
Historical Examples of artifice
The artifice was too palpable to escape Rotha's observation.
The Shadow of a CrimeHall Caine
They held the secret of artifice in metals and gems; they were architects and sculptors.
Italy, the Magic LandLilian Whiting
Jeff had been summoned, and Esther met him with no pretence at an artifice of coolness.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
There was not an artifice I did not practise to cure myself of this baleful infatuation.
Gerald FitzgeraldCharles James Lever
The latter then resorted to artifice, seeing that force was unavailing.