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How to use artifice in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, verb

Artifice means crafty deception. Example: “Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.”

Examples of artifice by meaning

nounCrafty deception.

  • The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion.2021 November 21, Charles Hugh Smith, When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons

nounA trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.

  • The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club

verbTo construct by means of skill or specialised art.

  • Some of the greatest artists of their day either furnished designs or with their own hands artificed ornaments for domestic use,1900, Country Life, volume 7, page 138
  • Splints and slings, already described, are easily artificed out of small saplings or from stiff bark.1922, Appalachian Mountain Club, The A.M.C. White Mountain Guide: A Guide to Trails in the Mountains

More sentences with artifice

  • Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.From the entry avail
  • Here, the emphasis is somewhat deflatingly on the artifice in “Cymbeline.”2015 August 10, Charles Isherwood, “Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater”, in New York Times. From the entry deflatingly
  • When rustic rites become cosmopolitan fashions, the artifice is often more interesting than the original folkway.1997, Charles Arthur Willard, “Rhetoric’s Lot”, in Alan G. Gross, William M. Keith, editors, Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and…. From the entry folkway
  • But recycling his own photographs does more than note the fluxity of vision; it points toward the artifice of all images.1998, Western American Literature, volume 33, page 49. From the entry fluxity
  • It was a creation of artifice and mind.1919 [1918], Jack London, “The Red One”, in The Red One, London: Mills and Boon. From the entry fortuitousness
  • Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity.1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion. From the entry finikin
  • Living a lie saps us of integrity and moral cohesion to the point that we can no longer distinguish between the artifice being propped up and the real world.2023 June 22, Charles Hugh Smith, 2023-2030: Artifice Vs. Doom-Loops. From the entry integrity
  • That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork. From the entry sorcerous
  • For a complex judgment of war, they nonetheless overlap with one another, and their separation seems to a large section of public opinion a mere juridical artifice.2011, Carl Schmitt, edited by Timothy Nunan, Writings on War, Polity, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry war of aggression
  • Absence of artifice: A fragrant medley of garden roses, including vintage varieties, is accented brightly by anemones, French calla lilies, and a surprising purple wax bean.1995, Teleflora Incorporated (publisher), Flowers &., volume 16, page 46. From the entry purple wax bean

Meaning of artifice

  1. noun Crafty deception.
  2. noun A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
  3. noun A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.

Full definition of artifice

Questions about artifice in a sentence

How do you use artifice in a sentence?
Artifice is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.”
What is a short sentence with artifice?
“It was a creation of artifice and mind.”
What does artifice mean?
Artifice means crafty deception.

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