Meanings (ES + gloss)
ardid • artimaña • asechanza • treta • truco • trácala • zancadilla
An action intended to deceive; a trick.
It must be borne in mind that huntsmen sometimes make casts which they know must lose them their fox: […] At the same time, it would be bad policy to explain these little matters:…
Near-synonyms: ploy, stratagem
astucia
Cunning, guile, trickery.
A French privateer operating under an English commission raided Massacre Island at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1710, robbing its warehouse of thousands of deerskins and other pelts,…
[H]e [Bertrand du Guesclin] had great natural cunning, that half-savage quality, was full of ruse and trick in war, he was contemptuous towards the high noblesse, but gentle to the…
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