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subterfuge

noun as in deception

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The websites, subterfuge, and paid surrogates cost them money.

Delving into why this slaughter never happened uncovers a story of spy-craft, subterfuge and tightly-kept secrets.

So why, after a year of careful subterfuge, did Harry decide to publicly embrace Cressida on Wednesday morning?

The witnesses were used in the worst possible way, as a sort of subterfuge to play on emotions.

The best way to dismantle Israel as a Jewish state is through subterfuge.

"Only as a sister should think of an absent brother," returned Dorothy, ashamed of the subterfuge.

I never feared any thing but guilt, and I will not purchase life at the expense of a base subterfuge.

Necessity drove me to subterfuge: I pretended total inability to distinguish the needles.

He passionately denounced the surrender, the "policy of subterfuge and crooked ways," which threatened to founder Italy.

This was too transparent a subterfuge to deceive one even so unaccustomed to life in these solitudes as Jack Dudley.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subterfuge, such as: bluff, ploy, stratagem, artifice, device, and hoax.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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