【每日一词】 artifice - n. 诡计；欺骗；（欺骗，骗人）巧妙的办法
artifice
Definition
1a: clever or artful skill : INGENUITY
//… believing that characters had to be created from within rather than with artifice.
— Garson Kanin
1b: an ingenious device or expedient
2a: an artful stratagem : TRICK
//… revising the state's constitution through a series of legal stratagems and artifices …
— W. Haywood Burns
2b: false or insincere behavior
//social artifice
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonymscheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness
Antonymsartlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity
Examples
//He spoke without artifice or pretense.
//The whole story was just an artifice to win our sympathy.
