Antonyms for artifice
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ahr-tuh-fis |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɑr tə fɪs |
Definition of artifice
Origin :- 1530s, "workmanship, the making of anything by craft or skill," from Middle French artifice "skill, cunning" (14c.), from Latin artificium "a profession, trade, employment, craft; making by art," from artifex (genitive artificis) "craftsman, artist," from ars "art" (see art (n.)) + facere "do" (see factitious). Meaning "device, trick" (the usual modern sense) is from 1650s.
- noun hoax; clever act
- noun cunning; deception
- noun skill, cleverness
- The artifice was too palpable to escape Rotha's observation.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- They held the secret of artifice in metals and gems; they were architects and sculptors.
- Extract from : « Italy, the Magic Land » by Lilian Whiting
- Jeff had been summoned, and Esther met him with no pretence at an artifice of coolness.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- There was not an artifice I did not practise to cure myself of this baleful infatuation.
- Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
- The latter then resorted to artifice, seeing that force was unavailing.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
- But he was human in other ways, too, and this became apparent because he was not capable of artifice.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- You 'd give a lad to the Jesuits, then, to be trained up in every artifice and distrust?
- Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever
- But he was human in other ways, too, and they were apparent because he was not capable of artifice.
- Extract from : « The Point Of Honor » by Joseph Conrad
- And why will you obscure the Glory of your Life, by an Artifice unworthy of you?
- Extract from : « The Works of Aphra Behn » by Aphra Behn
- Laverna was the presiding goddess of thieves, and of all artifice and fraud.
- Extract from : « Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome » by E.M. Berens
Synonyms for artifice
- ability
- adroitness
- artfulness
- chicanery
- con
- contrivance
- craftiness
- deftness
- device
- dishonesty
- dodge
- duplicity
- expedient
- facility
- finesse
- gambit
- gimmick
- guile
- ingenuity
- invention
- inventiveness
- know-how
- machination
- maneuver
- play
- ploy
- racket
- ruse
- savvy
- scam
- scheming
- skill
- slyness
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- tactic
- trickery
- wile
- wiliness
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