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ar·ti·fice /'är-tə-fəs/ n: a clever strategy usu. intended to deceive or defraud
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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artful contrivance, artfulness, artificiality, beguilement, charlatanry, cheating, chicanery, circumvention, cleverness, concealment, connivance, contrivance, cover, cozenage, craftiness, crafty device, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deception, delusion, design, device, disguise, distortion, dodgery, duplicity, espieglerie, evasion, expediency, fabrication, false claim, false pretensions, falsification, feint, finesse, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hoax, illusion, impersonation, imposture, ingenuity, insidiousness, insubstantiality, intrigue, jobbery, knavery, Machiavellianism, machination, maneuvering, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidy, pettifoggery, ploy, pretense, pretension, pretext, rascality, ruse, scheme, sham, sharp practice, slyness, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, tactics, trap, trick, trickery, wile, wiliness, wrinkle
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bad faith, contrivance, deception, device (contrivance), disguise, duplicity, evasion, expedient, false pretense, fraud, hoax, knavery, machination, maneuver (trick), pettifoggery, ploy, ruse, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, trap
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.A clever or cunning device, often used to commit fraud or some trickery.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
