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artifice 音标拼音: ['ɑrtəfɪs] n. 技巧,巧妙,诡计 技巧,巧妙,诡计 artifice n 1: a deceptive maneuver ( especially to avoid capture) [ synonym: { ruse}, { artifice}] Artifice \ Ar" ti* fice\, n. [ L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art facere to make: cf. F. artifice.] 1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. [ 1913 Webster] The material universe . . . in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. -- Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Artful or skillful contrivance. [ 1913 Webster] His [ Congreve' s] plots were constructed without much artifice. -- Craik. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. Note: [ Now the usual meaning.] [ 1913 Webster] Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 211 Moby Thesaurus words for " artifice": Gongorism, Italian hand, Machiavellianism, action, acuteness, ad hoc measure, adeptness, adroitness, affectation, affectedness, ambidexterity, answer, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artificiality, astuteness, bad faith, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, cabal, cageyness, callidity, canniness, catch, chicane, chicanery, chouse, cleverness, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, countermove, counterplot, coup, course of action, covin, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, curve, curve- ball, cute trick, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deep- laid plot, demarche, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, dodgery, double- dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, effort, engineering, euphemism, euphuism, expedient, faithlessness, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, finagling, fine Italian hand, finesse, foul play, foxiness, frame- up, gambit, game, gamesmanship, gimmick, googly, grift, guile, hocus- pocus, hyperelegance, improbity, improvisation, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, intrigue, inventiveness, joker, juggle, jugglery, jury- rig, jury- rigged expedient, keenness, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game, low cunning, machination, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, manneredness, mannerism, means, measure, move, one- upmanship, originality, overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overrefinement, pass, pettifoggery, pettifogging, pis aller, plot, plotting, ploy, preciosity, preciousness, pretentiousness, proficiency, purism, quickness, racket, rascality, readiness, red herring, resort, resource, resourcefulness, rigging, ruse, satanic cunning, scheme, schemery, scheming, scurvy trick, shake- up, sharp practice, sharpness, shift, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, skulduggery, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight- of- hand trick, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, solution, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, subterfuge, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, supercherie, suppleness, tactic, temporary expedient, treachery, trick, trickery, trickiness, trump, two- facedness, underhand dealing, underhandedness, underplot, unnaturalness, wariness, web of intrigue, wile, wiles, wiliness, wily device, wire- pulling, wit, working hypothesis, working proposition
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