Artifices Synonyms and Antonyms

Skill, cleverness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. guiles
  2. ingenuities
  3. crafts
  4. arts
  5. skills
Antonyms:
  1. simplicities
  2. incapacities
  3. inabilities
Hoax; clever act
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. deceits
  2. guiles
Antonyms:
  1. realities
  2. honesties
Something contrived or made up to achieve an end, especially by deceiving; a stratagem or ruse:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wiles

Artifices Sentence Examples

  • Two days later Napoleon, by means of unworthy artifices, hurried the Austrian plenipotentiaries into signing the treaty of peace at Schonbrunn.

  • Various artifices are employed to denote the end of the reaction.

  • This notion is fundamental in the present theory because we will find that one of the most valuable artifices for finding invariants of a single quantic is first to find simultaneous invariants of several different quantics, and subsequently to make all the quantics identical.

  • Cardinal Siffrein, who is known as the Abbe Maury (1746-1817), resumed all the known artifices of sermon-style in a volume which has a permanent historical value, the well-known Essai sur l'eloquence de la chaire (1810); he was himself rather a fiery politician than a persuasive divine.

  • His personal devotion to the emperor was of that absolute unwavering kind which Napoleon highly valued; it is seen in the attempt to defend the unworthy artifices adopted by the great man in April-May 1808 in order to make himself master of the destinies of Spain.

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