Sentence examples for mere subterfuge from inspiring English sources

The plaintiff says that no valid purpose existed — the entire transaction was a mere subterfuge designed to eliminate the minority.

But Uglow, adept at shifting time frames, has already let us know that Sarah Losh's petition was successful, that in fact it was mere subterfuge, enabling her six years hence to construct a work of "great genius," in the estimation of the Pre-­Raphaelite poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a new church of yellow sandstone.

Her most powerful novels (The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence) illustrate how a mere century ago a woman's only sure route to achievement was through marrying up, contaminating romance with social climbing and subterfuge.

More subterfuge.

Subterfuge was suspected then.

Promises, pretence, subterfuge.

Truth or subterfuge?

Revelation with subterfuge?

-- of subterfuge," he said.

This required subterfuge.

The masseur denied any subterfuge.