artifice
Example Sentences
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Sayers praised the art underlying the artifice, paraphrasing Aristotle on the practice of literary deception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The player-friendly artifice that defines so much of Las Vegas was absent here.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
Playing Ingrid-as-Aurora — the heroine of a film that, even its biggest fan admits, is “no ‘Citizen Kane’” — Lopez is shellacked under two layers of diva artifice.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
The movie star’s mask of artifice briefly vanishes, and all that’s left is a puppy dog look of yearning, a sad acceptance that it’s too late to change certain things.
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025
As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing artifice
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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Divergent
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