• n.
    ⦿an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
    lexical concept
  • his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:contrivance
  2. enl:dodge
  3. enl:stratagem
wn:interlingual indexili:i67876

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcontrivancedodgestratagem