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I found artifice where I hoped for sincerity.artifice = deceptive behavior
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It was another example of political artifice.
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My eyes burn, and it's not artifice, unlike the wincing. (source)artifice = deception
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There is no reason at this point in our relationship for Andrew to find out I wasn't actually born this good-looking—that a great deal of artifice goes into it. (source)artifice = clever manipulation
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This time, along with many other artifices, they brought a flying carpet.† (source)artifices = deceptive maneuvers (tricks to help pretend)
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prof; it even happened (and more than once) that their exposure came about through the contortionate artifices of fellow Jews.† (source)
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They belonged in an age of elaborate artifice and base superstition—when a lucky few dined on cutlets of veal and the majority endured in ignorance.† (source)
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They are constantly bombarded by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who have more confidence than they deserve, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.† (source)artifices = deceptive maneuvers (tricks to help pretend)
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Frederick's expression is entirely without artifice.† (source)
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And she stooped to artifices that she knew were unworthy of her, but which she deliberately chose to employ.† (source)
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As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar.† (source)
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Still, I thank you with all my heart: the company of such a talented man would have been very serviceable, but the duties of your profession—" I am glad to think that our host, in the innocence of his Icelandic soul, was blind to the transparent artifices of my uncle.† (source)
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Artifice!† (source)
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At length little Jane, perceiving its young brains to be imperilled, softly left her place, and with many small artifices coaxed the dangerous weapon away.† (source)
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Thomas Hoving and Evelyn Harrison and the art experts were instantly able to see behind the forger's artifice.† (source)
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But his ingenuity availed him little, against the cold artifices of the people he had encountered.† (source)
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