artifice

artifice noun artful contrivance, artfulness, beguilement, charlatanry, cheating, chicanery, clever ness, concealment, connivance, cover, cozenage, craftiness, crafty device, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deception, delusion, design, device, disguise, distortion, dodgery, duplicity, espieglerie, evasion, expediency, fabrication, false claim, false pretennions, falsification, feint, finesse, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hoax, illusion, impersonation, imposture, ingenuity, insubstantiality, intrigue, jobbery, knavery, machination, maneuvering, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidy, pettifoggery, ploy, pretense, pretension, pretext, rascality, ruse, scheme, sham, sharp practice, slyness, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, tactics, trap, trick, trickery, wile, wiliness, wrinkle

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See also: bad faith, contrivance, deception, device, disguise, duplicity, evasion, expedient, false pretense, fraud, hoax, knavery, machination, maneuver, pettifoggery, ploy, ruse, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, trap, trick