Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Deception used to achieve an end.
- noun A deceptive stratagem or device.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That to which a person resorts for escape or concealment; a shift; an evasion; artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument.
- noun Synonyms Shift, etc. (see
evasion ), excuse, trick, quirk, shuffle, pretense, pretext, mask, blind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable An
indirect ordeceptive device orstratagem ; ablind . Refers especially to war and politics. - noun uncountable
Deception ; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Despite what Zachriel may think, subterfuge is not an Olympic event.
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Regarding archives being deleted, it seems to me that a little subterfuge is required here, if you think your blog/newspaper is going to be bought out by megacorp, burn a copy on disc, say nothing, and take it home.
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More subterfuge is discovered, and in the end, the unicorn with the Jewel of Judgement appears.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Courts of Chaos - Roger Zelazny Blue Tyson 2006
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More subterfuge is discovered, and in the end, the unicorn with the Jewel of Judgement appears.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Great Book of Amber - Roger Zelazny Blue Tyson 2006
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But I don't mean to suggest that this is some form of deceit: it seems to me that the people fooled by this subterfuge are the people presenting the ID case themselves.
An Ode to ID 2009
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It doesn't have anything to add and can only dabble in subterfuge.
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Indeed, if Obama, Reid and Pelosi use what can only be called subterfuge to pass the health care bill, what will they be emboldened to do next?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional? 2010
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Thank you, HBM for referring to all that which can only remain subterfuge.
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The subterfuge was the Ethiopians putting the war lords back into power in Somolia.
Think Progress » The U.S. has launched air strikes in Somalia 2007
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The only character who sees through the subterfuge is the ex-CIA agent, abandoned by his country, whose life of dirty deeds on behalf of The Company prepares him alone to understand his role and dig his way out.
Hullabaloo 2005
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