Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

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Fish :: Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..
Dodgery :: Dodgery (n.) trickery; artifice.
Fraudulent :: Fraudulent (a.) Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest..
Circumventive :: Circumventive (a.) Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
Covin :: Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..
Manuary :: Manuary (n.) An artificer.
Craftiness :: Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..
Tradesman :: Tradesman (n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands..
Juggle :: Juggle (v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.
Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..
Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
Politician :: Politician (a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.
Locksmith :: Locksmith (n.) An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
Train :: Train (v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure..
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
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