Legal Definition and Related Resources of Artifice

Trick or maneuver implying deceit ; a stratagem. See U.S. v Corlin, 44 F. Supp. 940.

noun

• artful contrivance
• artfulness
• artificiality
• beguile ment
• charlatanry
• cheating
• chicanery
• circumvention
• cleverness
• concealment
• connivance
• contrivance
• cover
• cozenage
• craftiness
• crafty device
• cunning
• cunningness
• deceit
• deception
• delusion
• design
• device
• disguise
• distortion
• dodgery
• duplicity
• espieglerie
• evasion
• expediency
• fabrication
• false claim
• false pretensions
• falsification
• feint
• finesse
• forgery
• fraudu lence
• guile
• hoax
• illusion
• impersonation
• imposture
• ingenuity
• insidiousness
• insubstantiality
• intrigue
• jobbery
• knavery
• Machiavellism
• machination
• maneuvering
• mendacity
• misrepresentation
• perfidy
• pettifoggery
• ploy
• pretense
• pretension
• pretext
• rascality
• ruse
• scheme
• sham
• sharp practice
• slyness
• snare
• stratagem
• subterfuge
• tactics
• trick
• trickery
• wile
• wiliness
• wrinkle
• wrinkle

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See Also

• Communication
• Privileged
• Deceit
• Fraud