cunning+contrivance
71craft — n 1. skill, skillfullness, dexterity, adroitness, expertness, mastery, artistry; aptitude, facility, address, dispatch, ready skill, Inf. know how; ingenuity, cleverness, talent, flair, genius, art, knack. 2. cunning, wiliness, slyness, foxiness …
72deceit — n 1. deception, dissimulation, hypocrisy, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane, trickery; jugglery, trumpery, dupery, hocus pocus, fraudulence, shenanigan; craft, wiles, guile, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle,… …
73dodge — v 1. shift, move or dart aside, jump away, parry; duck, bob, bob and weave, veer, swerve, jib; whiffle, sidestep; shy, recoil, draw back. 2. avoid, elude, evade, give [s.o.] the slip; hide from, stow away, escape, skulk; bolt, run away, decamp,… …
74hocus-pocus — n 1. mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, open sesame, magic word, magic formula; incantation, chant, invocation, conjuration, conjuring, evocation. 2. juggler s trick, jugglery, sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, Brit. hanky panky; feint,… …
75insincerity — n 1. disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness, mealy mouthedness; artificiality, Inf. phoniness, dissembling, dissimulation, cant, lip service, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, flattery, smooth talk; deceit fulness, dishonesty, underhandedness,… …
76wile — n 1. artifice, stratagem, contrivance, device, subterfuge, expedient; trick, ruse, snare, trap; maneuver, move; scheme, plot, plan, design, Inf. game or little game; machinations. 2. wiles cunning, craft, slyness, foxiness, artfulness, wiliness,… …
77artifice — [n1] hoax; clever act con, contrivance, device, dodge, expedient, gambit, gimmick*, machination, maneuver, play, ploy, racket*, ruse, savvy, scam*, stratagem, subterfuge, tactic, wile; concept 59 Ant. candor, frankness, honesty, honor,… …
78wile — [n] cunning angle, artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con*, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, deception, device, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, feint, flimflam*, fraud, gambit, game, gimmick, guile, hoax, horseplay,… …
79engine — [13] The underlying etymological meaning of engine is ‘natural talent’. It comes ultimately from Latin ingenium (source also of English ingenious) which was formed from the base *gen (as in genetic) denoting ‘reproduction’ and meant literally… …
80trick — [trik] n. [ME trik < NormFr trique < trikier < OFr trichier, to trick, cheat, prob. < VL * triccare, altered < ? LL tricare, to deceive, for L tricari, to make trouble < tricae, vexations, tricks < IE * treik < base * ter …
