artifice
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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, wrinkleSee 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