All artifice synonyms

noun artifice

• gimmick — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
• contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• inventiveness — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
• stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
• machination — an act or instance of machinating.
• ploy — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• tactic — tactics (def 1).
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• artfulness — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
• slyness — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• wiliness — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
• finesse — extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
• ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
• adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
• ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
• facility — Often, facilities. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
• deftness — dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.
• invention — the act of inventing.
• know-how — the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
• skill — the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills.
• scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
• manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.