<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.</li><li>Synonyms: subterfuge.</li><li>Trickery; guile; craftiness.</li><li>Synonyms: duplicity, art, deceit, deception.</li><li>Cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness: a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance.</li><li>A skillful or artful contrivance or expedient.</li></ul>