Usage examples (15)

• The events are farcical even at their darkest, artificed to an utter irrealism.
• Around the plants was an artificed floor of shimmery silk-overlay that kept the prey lines from sticking to the cavern's rocky surface.
• These steps must be small, because the Rationalist aesthetic is an artificed superposition, an imposition on the clay of a world deeply Romanticised by many.
• Does this or that SF novel "get away" with an anomaly as its "one impossible thing" because of a richly artificed context, or is that anomaly highlighted by that context?