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artifice Definition


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artifice
noun
    1a. A clever trick; a crafty plan or ploy;
      Thesaurus: manoeuvre, stratagem, trick, wile, ruse.
    1b. Clever trickery; cunning.
      Thesaurus: trickery, guile, cunning, deceit, dishonesty.
    2a. A piece of crafty fraudulence;
    2b. Crafty fraudulence.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin artificium, from ars, artis art + facere to make.



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