Subterfuge
English
Noun
Subterfuge (countable and uncountable; plural Subterfuges)- (countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics.
- (uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
Verbs for Subterfuge
cloak in—; employ—; resort to—; screen—; veil in—; —beguiles; —conceals; —counterfeits ; —deceives ; —deludes; —dodges; —eludes; —evades; —falsifies; —feigns; — glosses over; —impostures; —juggles; — misleads; —misrepresents; —obscures.
Thesaurus
obscuration, obscurement, outwitting, overreaching, parrying, pass, pettifoggery, phantasm, plot, ploy, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, prevarication, protestation, public motive, pussyfooting, put-off, quibbling, racket, red herring, refuge, ruse, scheme, screen, screening, scurvy trick, secrecy, secretion, secretiveness, secretness, self-deception, semblance, sham, shift, shifting, show, shuffling, sidestepping, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, smoke screen, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, stalking-horse, stratagem, strategy, swindling, tactic, trick, trickery, trickiness, tricking, varnish, veil, victimization, vision, wile, willful misconception, wily device, wishful thinking, airtight secrecy, alibi, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bickering, blind, bluff, bluffing, boggling, bosey, burial, burying, calculated deception, captiousness, catch, caviling, cheat, chicane, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, cloak, close secrecy, closeness, clouding, color, concealedness, concealment, conning, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, cover, cover story, cover-up, covering, covering up, covertness, craft, crypticness, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, darkening, deceit, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, discreetness, discretion, dishonesty, dodge, dodging, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, equivocation, evasion, evasiveness, excuse, expedient, facade, fallacy, falseness, fast deal, feint, fencing, fetch, ficelle, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, fraud, front, gambit, game, gimmick, gloss, googly, grift, guise, hairsplitting, hallucination, handle, hedging, hiddenness, hiding, hocus-pocus, hoodwinking, illusion, interment, intrigue, invisibility, joker, juggle, jugglery, kidding, knavery, lame excuse, little game, locus standi, logic-chopping, maneuver, mask, masking, mirage, move, mystification, nit-picking,
