artifice vs dodge

artifice

noun
  • A crafty but underhanded deception. 

  • A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse. 

  • A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture. 

  • A tactical move to gain advantage. 

verb
  • To construct by means of skill or specialised art 

dodge

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

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