ARTIFICE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ARTIFICE?

Need another word that means the same as “artifice”? Find 35 synonyms and 30 related words for “artifice” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Artifice” are: ruse, trickery, deviousness, deceit, deception, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity, guile, cunning, artfulness, wiliness, craft, craftiness, evasion, slyness, chicanery, intrigue, subterfuge, strategy, bluff, pretence, device, trick, stratagem, ploy, tactic, scheme, move, manoeuvre, contrivance, machination, expedient, wile, dodge

Artifice as a Noun

Definitions of "Artifice" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “artifice” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture.
• Clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.

Synonyms of "Artifice" as a noun (35 Words)

artfulness	The quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage.
bluff	The act of bluffing in poker deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards. His game of bluff.
cheating	A deception for profit to yourself.
chicanery	The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. Storylines packed with political chicanery.
contrivance	A thing which is created skilfully and inventively to serve a particular purpose. His skillful contrivance of answers to every problem.
craft	An aircraft or spaceship. Sailing craft.
craftiness	A steep rugged rock or cliff.
cunning	Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception. What resources of energy and cunning it took just to survive.
deceit	The act of deceiving. A series of lies and deceits.
deception	The act of deceiving. A range of elaborate deceptions.
device	A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment. An incendiary device.
deviousness	The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.
dishonesty	A fraudulent or deceitful act. The dismissal of thirty civil servants for dishonesty and misconduct.
dodge	A cunning trick or dishonest act, in particular one intended to avoid something unpleasant. The grant system s widespread use as a tax dodge.
duplicity	Deceitfulness. The president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress.
evasion	An indirect answer; a prevaricating excuse. Their adroit evasion of almost all questions.
expedient	A means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral. The current policy is a political expedient.
guile	Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception. He used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in.
intrigue	A clandestine love affair. The cabinet was a nest of intrigue.
machination	A plot or scheme.
manoeuvre	A move made to gain a tactical end. The Russian vessel was on manoeuvres.
move	A player’s turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game. He didn t make a move to help.
ploy	A maneuver in a game or conversation. The eternal cross stitch I was set to do before I could indulge my own ploys.
pretence	Imaginative intellectual play. Before the age of two children start to engage in pretence.
ruse	A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture. Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house.
scheme	A schematic or preliminary plan. The whole scheme is plunged into darkness bar the light in Victor s house.
slyness	Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
stratagem	Skill in devising plans or schemes; cunning. A series of devious stratagems.
strategy	The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war. Time to develop a coherent economic strategy.
subterfuge	Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal. I hated all the subterfuges I hated lying to you.
tactic	The art of disposing armed forces in order of battle and of organizing operations, especially during contact with an enemy. These are possible tax saving tactics to discuss with your accountant.
trick	A clever or particular way of doing something. She thought Elaine was playing some trick on her.
trickery	The practice of deception. The dealer resorted to trickery.
wile	The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. She didn t employ any feminine wiles to capture his attention.
wiliness	A hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe.

Usage Examples of "Artifice" as a noun

• The style is not free from the artifices of the period.
• An industry dominated by artifice.

Associations of "Artifice" (30 Words)

calculated	Carefully thought out in advance. Victims of vicious and calculated assaults.
concoct	Make a concoction of by mixing. She began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him.
construct	Build or make (something, typically a building, road, or machine. These rules tell us how to construct a grammatical sentence in a given language.
deliberate	Engage in long and careful consideration. A conscientious and deliberate worker.
deliberately	In a careful and unhurried way. The fire was started deliberately.
designed	Done or made or performed with purpose and intent. Games designed for all ages.
fabricate	Invent (something) in order to deceive. Officers fabricated evidence.
fancied	Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fancied wrong.
fictitious	Adopted in order to deceive. Reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the Minister.
forge	A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering. The signature on the cheque was forged.
headed	Having a heading or course in a certain direction. She was always cool headed.
intend	Mean or intend to express or convey. Pigs intended for human consumption.
intended	Planned or meant. An intended insult.
intentional	Done or made or performed with purpose and intent- Havelock Ellis. Intentional damage.
intentionality	The quality of mental states (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes) which consists in their being directed towards some object or state of affairs.
intentionally	With intention; in an intentional manner. He used that word intentionally.
knowingly	With full knowledge and deliberation. Amy looked at me knowingly.
minded	(used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified. I m not scientifically minded.
plan	Make a design of plan out in systematic often graphic form. The UN peace plan.
planned	Planned in advance. The planned outlays for new equipment.
premeditated	Characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning. A premeditated crime.
purpose	The quality of being determined to do or achieve something firmness of purpose. He is a man of purpose.
purposeful	Having or showing determination or resolve. The purposeful stride of a great barrister.
purposefully	In a way that shows determination or resolve. We purposefully avoided addressing the problem.
purposely	With intention; in an intentional manner. She had purposely made it difficult.
ruse	An action intended to deceive someone; a trick. Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house.
sabotage	Destroy property or hinder normal operations. A coordinated campaign of sabotage.
scheme	Arrange according to a colour scheme. A classical rhyme scheme.
skillfully	With skill. Fragments of a nearly complete jug skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology.
wittingly	With full knowledge and deliberation. He wittingly deleted the references.