artifice
31artifice — /artafas/ An ingenious contrivance or device of some kind, and, when used in a bad sense, it corresponds with trick or fraud. It implies craftiness and deceit, and imports some element of moral obliquity. See also scheme or artifice to defraud… …
32Artifice à retard — ● Artifice à retard artifice permettant le tir en volée par une mise à feu unique et des explosions échelonnées dans le temps en fonction des différents retards utilisés …
33artifice to defraud — scheme or artifice to defraud For purposes of fraudulent representation statutes, consists of forming plan or devising some trick to perpetrate fraud upon another. State v. Smith, 121 Ariz. 106, 588 P.2d 848. Such connotes a plan or pattern of… …
34artifice — noun a) a crafty but underhanded deception b) a trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse See Also: artificial …
35artifice — Synonyms and related words: Gongorism, Italian hand, Machiavellianism, action, acuteness, ad hoc measure, adeptness, adroitness, affectation, affectedness, ambidexterity, answer, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artificiality, astuteness, bad faith …
36artifice — ar|ti|fice [ˈa:tıfıs US ˈa:r ] n formal [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: Latin artificium, from artifex skilled worker , from ars ( ART1) + facere to make ] 1.) [U] the use of clever tricks to deceive someone = ↑cunning 2.) …
37artífice — com. 1) artista, autor, creador. 2) artesano*, operario, obrero, menestral. * * * Sinónimos: ■ artesano, artista, virtuoso …
38artifice — ar·ti·fice || É‘Ëtɪfɪs n. trick; deception; expertise …
39artifice — [ α:tɪfɪs] noun clever devices or expedients, especially to trick or deceive others. Origin ME (in the sense workmanship ): from OFr., from L. artificium, based on ars art + facere make …
40artifice — n. 1. Contrivance, invention, effort, art. 2. Cunning, deceit, deception, imposture, fraud, trickery, device, duplicity, guile, subtlety, finesse, stratagem, shift, trick, subterfuge, wile, ruse, doubling, Machiavelism, diplomacy, machination,… …
