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It is typically used to describe deceit or trickery used to achieve a goal. Example: "The spy employed subterfuge to gather information without being detected." Alternatives include "deception" or "trickery."
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Subterfuge
noun
An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics.
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For them, the slogan becomes just another liberal subterfuge, distracting from the "real" crises: I'm a conservative, I admire and trust my wife and daughters, therefore Benghazi.
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Ask anyone with depression who has a job and they will likely tell you of a tortuous process of concealment and subterfuge.
"So there's a great deal of subterfuge before," he explains.
He says: "There is no subterfuge, there is no mystery.
It must be out there at least trying to defend the truth without subterfuge against the lies of dictators and extremists everywhere.
This week it was the turn of Credit Suisse, the Alpine country's other banking giant, to answer questions stemming from a scathing 175-page report.The subcommittee found much evidence of subterfuge in 2001-08, sofe of it provided by former Credit Suisse clients who had joined a voluntary-disclosure programme.
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President Ernesto Perez Balladares has strongly denied anything of the sort is being negotiated behind the public's back: "In no way could this be a subterfuge, a shield, or an umbrella for a military base," he said recently.
Such subterfuge is harder to detect and less likely to enrage a mob.
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