单词	artifice
释义	artificear‧ti‧fice /ˈɑːtɪfɪs $ ˈɑːr-/ noun formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINartifice Origin: 1600-1700 French, Latin artificium, from artifex ‘skilled worker’, from ars ( ➔ ART1) + facere ‘to make’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The documentary highlights the difference between Warren's real life and the artifice of her stage shows. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS However, there is no copying, no artifice. Marsha Hunt and Thulani Davis have no need for this kind of artifice. Mrs Tucker was a marvelously candid lady, not given to artifice. Not that she seeks pedestals; there seems no artifice about her. These works, in some way, seem timeless and devoid of artifice. This is not wild, uncontrolled nature, but greenery as artifice and symbol. Though he deceived the beholder into taking his artifice for reality, Zeuxis practised an idealist art. What is now considered natural is the result of learned artifice. 1[uncountable] the use of clever tricks to deceive someone SYN  cunning2[countable] a trick used to deceive someone
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