Dictionary
is subterfuge
noun
An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics.
synonyms
Exact(6)
But all we've seen from their side is subterfuge.
The chairman of the state education board, Dr. Don McLeroy, a dentist in Central Texas, denies that the phrase "is subterfuge for bringing in creationism".
Implying that "environmental factors" only refer to synthetic chemicals is subterfuge.
Viewed from the rear, the car's haunches seem to protrude wide from the fuselage in the manner of a Porsche 911 Turbo, but this is subterfuge; from the front, the haunches appear tucked and tight to the body.
But your silence in this matter is subterfuge, not gamesmanship.
Is subterfuge a lost art in our age of information saturation?
Similar(54)
And where there's sex, there's subterfuge, a truism that runs from "Cyrano de Bergerac" through "The Crying Game".
Of course, this being a movie, there had to be subterfuge and subtext to the hypnosis, which meant some aspect of mind control would come in.
In less than two minutes there's subterfuge, streaks of blood, paranoia, and a phone that rings ominously, overlaid by a breathy, synth-driven soundtrack.
Rather, they say, it was subterfuge, a political game, an elaborate ploy to throw a chaotic country into even more confusion.
When it does stoop to show the secretary of state dating a parade of starlets, it posits that this was subterfuge to cover his pernicious machinations in Vietnam, East Timor and Chile.
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