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a deceptive maneuver (a trick to help pretend)

found artifice where I hoped for sincerity

political artifice
...a still bolder acknowledgment of artifice and make-believe: the rooster's crow, the train and factory whistles and school bells frankly man-made and in the spirit of "play."
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

artifice = a deceptive maneuver (a trick to help pretend)

But artifice was necessary, he had found, for stemming the cold and inhumane blast of the world's contempt.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
It's no secret, actually, all my friends know it and they forgive the artifice.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
But I suppose that's the way with such women: They wouldn't be minxes if they weren't masters of artifice and fraud.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
It was half breath, half music; it rose softly from the waters of the lake; and I was surrounded by it through I knew not what artifice.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
Within it they lament for the artifice whereby the dead Deidamia still mourns for Achilles, and there for the Palladium they bear the penalty.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
They exceed the usual unjustified license of party artifice.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
One day I noticed there was no more skin to absently peel, just air where there'd been artifice.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
He knew that the ledges had not been touched, that no artifice had altered the unplanned beauty of the graded steps.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Her mother's face lost all its stiff artifice and her voice was surprisingly soft.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
Her turning to that worthy lady was an artifice to bring her into the discussion, quarrel with her, and vanquish her.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
It would be false, and there was no room for artifice.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
My eyes burn, and it's not artifice, unlike the wincing.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent
Frederick's expression is entirely without artifice.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
One artifice succeeded with her to admiration.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
The consequence is, that his national pride resorts to a thousand artifices, and to all the petty tricks of individual vanity.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
This artifice seldom fails: the daily scenes we witness prepare us long beforehand to be indulgent.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2

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