Definitions for artifice

artifice ar·ti·fice

Spelling: [ahr-tuh-fis]
IPA: /ˈɑr tə fɪs/

Artifice is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 258 anagrams from letters in artifice (acefiirt).

Definitions for artifice

noun

  1. a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
  2. trickery; guile; craftiness.
  3. cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness:
  4. a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient.

Origin of artifice

1525-35; Anglo-French Latin artificium craftsmanship, art, craftiness, equivalent to arti-, combining form of ars art1 + -fic-, combining form of facere to

Examples for artifice

They held the secret of artifice in metals and gems; they were architects and sculptors.

The latter then resorted to artifice, seeing that force was unavailing.

The collection is by turn bizarre, hilarious, unpredictable, all of it without a single note of artifice.

He is unfailingly polite and contrite, still slightly awkward with the artifice of campaigning after all these years.

Jeff had been summoned, and Esther met him with no pretence at an artifice of coolness.

Of course, these photos also emphasize the artifice that lies behind documentation.

The artifice was too palpable to escape Rotha's observation.

There is usually something transparent about the artifice required by famous artists trying to remain current.

Where Raphael constructed ideal women and made them seem normal and necessary, Dürer constructs ideal works of art and artifice.

There was not an artifice I did not practise to cure myself of this baleful infatuation.

Word Value for artifice
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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