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artifice Noun 1. a clever trick 2. skill or cleverness [Latin ars skill + facere to make] artifice 1. skill, ingenuity, or craftiness. See also: Skill and Craft
2. Obsolete, the command of a learned trade or skill. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
artifice noun 1. cunning, scheming, trick, device, craft, tactic, manoeuvre, deception, hoax, expedient, ruse, guile, trickery, duplicity, subterfuge, stratagem, contrivance, chicanery, wile, craftiness, artfulness, slyness, machination noun 2. cleverness, skill, facility, invention, ingenuity, finesse, inventiveness, deftness, adroitness |
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Thus, to take a long and circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of DEVIATION. Perhaps this was because I had reached the point through my acquaintance with Tolstoy where I was impatient even of the artifice that hid itself. Yet his style, for the most part devoid alike of artifice and art, almost baldly simple and direct, seems hardly compatible with the disingenuousness of a merely literary intention; one would call it the manner of one more concerned for the fruits of research than for the flowers of expression. |
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