argucia

n. subtlety; sophistry

n. subtlety, astuteness, sagacity, acuity, acumen

= trickery, chicanery, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff, wheeze.
Ex: It is sometimes thought that a woman's trickery compensates for her physical weakness.
Ex: With zeal, perseverance, charm, and even chicanery, they recruited and trained the 1st users.
Ex: These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
Ex: Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.
Ex: But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.
Ex: There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.
Ex: Last year's profits were more than halved, so the company has come up with a clever wheeze.