Artifice

Noun

 * 1) a crafty but underhanded deception
 * 2) a trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse
 * 3) a strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture
 * 4) a tactical move to gain advantage

Adjectives for Artifice
amazing; shallow; harmless; debasing;delicate; petty; plotted; ingenious; fictional;honest; dazzling; wicked.

Synonyms for Artifice
ruse, stratagem, trick, machination, wile, guile, maneuver, contrivance, finesse.

Antonyms for Artifice
candor, innocence, honesty, frankness, openness, ingenuousness, sincerity.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: хитрина
 * French: artifice, feinte
 * Ido: artifico


 * Serbian: smicalica, lukavstvo
 * Spanish: artificio

Related terms

 * artificial