Crossword-Solution: ARTIFICE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Artifice | n. | A handicraft; a trade; art of making. |
| Artifice | n. | Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. |
| Artifice | n. | Artful or skillful contrivance. |
| Artifice | n. | Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.] |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARTIFICE (5)
What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry.
The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.
This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice.
More than once, as he went up that strange, black road of tragic artifice, he stopped, startled, thinking he heard steps in front of him.
Her dread lest he should be unforgiving was heightened by the thought of yesterday’s artifice, which might possibly add disgust to his disappointment.
Quotes with ARTIFICE (3)
Maybe illusion and artifice — lies, even — are a necessary part of romance.
In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end — the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility — but the other side of love, its cruelty, sterility and duplicity. In a way, the decadents did accept Nordau's idea of the artist as monster. But in nature, the glory and panacea of romanticism, they found nothing. Theirs is an aesthetic that disavows the natural and with it the …
Andrew Ross makes sense of this sad artifice [decreasing academic pay] by explaining that academics of all ranks, along with artists, are uniquely willing to tolerate exploitation in the workplace. Ross claims that scholars' readiness "to accept a discounted wage out of 'love for their subject' has helped not only to sustain the cheap labor supply but also to magnify its strength and volume. Like artists and performers, academics are inclined by training to sacrifice earnings…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).