crafty+device
11sméawrenc — m ( es/ as) cunning device, a crafty device, sharp trick …
12artifice — 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,… …
13stratagem — n. Artifice, device, manaeuvre, intrigue, wile, trick, fetch, dodge, crafty device, machination, plot, plan, scheme, artful contrivance, stroke of policy, finesse, ruse …
14Artifice — Ar ti*fice, n. [L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice.] 1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. [1913 Webster] The material… …
15artifice — /ahr teuh fis/, n. 1. a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile. 2. trickery; guile; craftiness. 3. cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness: a drawing room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance. 4. a skillful or… …
16imposture — n. Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, hoax, fraud, delusion, artifice, ruse, dodge, wile, deceit, stratagem, chouse, crafty device …
17ruse — n. [Fr.] Stratagem, trick, artifice, wile, manoeuvre, fraud, deceit, deception, imposture, chouse, sham, fetch, clap trap, crafty device …
18wile — n. Trick, stratagem, cheat, fraud, chicane, chicanery, artifice, chouse, imposture, deceit, imposition, deception, ruse, dodge, fetch, manaeuvre, cunning contrivance, crafty device …
19chouse — I. v. a. Deceive, cheat, trick, delude, defraud, swindle, dupe, gull, bamboozle, cozen, overreach, circumvent, beguile, hoodwink, victimize, take in, impose upon, put upon, practise upon, play upon. II. n. 1. Dupe, tool, gull, simpleton, cully. 2 …
20artifice — /ˈatəfəs / (say ahtuhfuhs) noun 1. a crafty device or expedient; a clever trick or stratagem. 2. craft; trickery. 3. skilful or apt contrivance. 4. Obsolete workmanship. {French, from Latin artificium} …
