artful device
71sleight — Synonyms and related words: adroitness, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicane, chicanery, chouse, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, curve, curve ball, cute… …
72stratagem — Synonyms and related words: action, ad hoc measure, alibi, answer, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, cabal, catch, chicanery, chouse, cloak, collusion, color, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance,… …
73strategy — Synonyms and related words: aerial tactics, airborne tactics, applied tactics, approach, armored tactics, arrangement, art, artful dodge, artifice, attack, barrier tactics, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, cavalry tactics, charting,… …
74subterfuge — Synonyms and related words: airtight secrecy, alibi, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, bamboozlement, befooling, bickering, blind, bluff, bluffing, boggling, bosey, burial, burying, calculated deception, captiousness, catch,… …
75tactic — Synonyms and related words: action, ad hoc measure, answer, art, artful dodge, artifice, blind, campaign, caper, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, craft, cute trick, deceit, demarche, design, device, dodge,… …
76trick — Synonyms and related words: ability, accomplishment, ace, action, ad hoc measure, affectation, airy nothing, alibi, anchor watch, answer, antic, apology, aroma, art, artful dodge, artifice, attribute, autism, automatism, bad habit, badge, bag of… …
77trickery — Synonyms and related words: art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, bravery, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chiffon, clinquant, collusion, conjuration, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, craftiness,… …
78wile — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, Machiavellianism, acuteness, allure, ambidexterity, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, bad faith, bag of tricks, beguile, bestow, bewitch, blind, bluff, bosey, cageyness, callidity,… …
79artifice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trick, stratagem, ruse; device; cunning. See deception. Ant., candor, innocence. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Maneuver] Syn. stratagem, trick, wile, ruse; see trick 1 . 2. [Trickery] Syn. guile, cunning,… …
80artifice — 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,… …
