Thesaurus / artifice
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The capture of Tarentum, though effected by artifice more than valour, was considered honourable to Fabius.
HISTORY OF ROME, VOL IIITITUS LIVIUS
What he could obtain by negociations or by artifice, he required not by force of arms.
By that artifice he secured all the remaining property of the unhappy sufferers for his own use.
In the whole course of the education of her son and daughter, she has pursued a system of artifice.
TALES AND NOVELS, VOLUME 5 (OF 10)MARIA EDGEWORTH
It is not a matter of artifice and simulation; it is a matter of being genuine and not a sham.
SHADOWS OF THE STAGEWILLIAM WINTER
Whenever women are treated like slaves,” he writes, “they act like slaves with artifice and hypocricy.
THE RADICALISM OF SHELLEY AND ITS SOURCESDANIEL J. MACDONALD
The adversary at last discovered the artifice, and "for the next five years," to quote Moore's own words, "we met as strangers."
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEY
The girl was inexperienced and had used no artifice, but he did not think she could have played her part better.
JOHNSTONE OF THE BORDERHAROLD BINDLOSS
Whatever man contrives or devises is an artifice, a thing of art not of nature, and therefore artificial.
THE KEMPTON-WACE LETTERSJACK LONDON
In war they go forward without sheltering themselves behind trees, or aiding their natural valour by any artifice.
HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, VOL. I.MERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM CLARK
WORDS RELATED TO ARTIFICE
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrousness
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deception
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dishonesty
- dissemblance
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- entrapping
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- overreaching
- pretense
- slyness
- smoke and mirrors
- trapping
- treachery
- trickery
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- non sequitur
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quibbling
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- non sequitur
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quibbling
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
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