artifice
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See also: artífice
Etymology
From Middle French artifice, from Latin artificium.
Pronunciation
Noun
artifice (countable and uncountable, plural artifices)
- A crafty but underhanded deception.
- A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
- 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:
- The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.
- A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
- A tactical move to gain advantage.
- (archaic) Something made with technical skill; a contrivance.
Translations
crafty but underhanded deception
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Verb
artifice (third-person singular simple present artifices, present participle artificing, simple past and past participle artificed)
Related terms
Further reading
- “artifice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “artifice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin artificium.
Pronunciation
Noun
artifice m (plural artifices)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “artifice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Noun
artifice
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