artifice in the PONS Dictionary

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Natural, simple and unaffected, he is free from sham in feeling and artifice in expression.
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More formally, such coordinates can be obtained from three-dimensional coordinates using the artifice of a map projection.
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The motive for the proposition of this edict is to defeat the artifices of sellers and to assist buyers whenever they are cheated by sellers.
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Extremely modest and sensitive to ridicule, he detested artifice and empty rhetoric.
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Rob's demonstration of adding canned laughter to television demonstrates the cynical artifice of the medium.
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It was walking, in the plain undiluted meaning of the term, without any artifice whatever.
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This artifice allowed it to be a duchy in name and an independent kingdom in reality.
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He is a daring experimentalist, a persistent seeker who never strains after visual artifices or unnatural stylistic unity for his own sake.
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He also very influentially described man's natural state (without science and artifice) as one where life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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In this he succeeded, though not without a good deal of artifice, more creditable to his ingenuity than to his virtue.
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