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artifice
[ ahr-tuh-fis ]
noun
- a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
Synonyms:
- trickery; guile; craftiness.
Synonyms: , , ,
- cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness:
a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance.
- a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient.
artifice
/ ˈɑ˳Ùɪ´Úɪ²õ /
noun
- a clever expedient; ingenious stratagem
- crafty or subtle deception
- skill; cleverness
- a skilfully contrived device
- obsolete.craftsmanship
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of artifice1
C16: from Old French, from Latin artificium skill, from artifex one possessed of a specific skill, from ars skill + -fex, from facere to make
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I think the artifice had reached a point of being inauthentic.
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Like everything else in the movie, it’s artifice that feigns at being fact.
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But how do you have, as Jomo would say, as little amount of artifice as possible?
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“You can throw a lot of money at visual effects, but usually the audience feels the artifice,†says Förderer.
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The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation.
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