Meaning artifice
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artifice


1530s, "workmanship, the making of anything by craft or skill," from Middle French artifice "skill, cunning" (14c.), from Latin artificium "a profession, trade, employment, cr [..]
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Deception or trickery. Related: Cindy Sherman. Untitled, Number 228. 1990 Sets, Stories, and Situations Thomas Demand. Room (Zimmer). 1996
Source: moma.org

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artifice


n. Trickery.
Source: easypacelearning.com

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a clever strategy usually intended to deceive or defraud
Source: dictionary.findlaw.com

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artifice


trickery; fraud; stratagem.
Source: econlib.org

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(n) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
Source: beedictionary.com





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