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 .]
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2 .
Workmanship ;
a skillfully contrived work .
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The material universe . . .
in the artifice of God ,
the artifice of the best Mechanist . --
Cudworth .
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3 .
Artful or skillful contrivance .
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His [
Congreve '
s ]
plots were constructed without much artifice . --
Craik .
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4 .
Crafty device ;
an artful ,
ingenious ,
or elaborate trick .
Note : [
Now the usual meaning .]
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Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry . --
Macaulay .
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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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