Thesaurus / subterfuge
FEEDBACK- deception
- ploy
- ruse
- sham
- stratagem
- artifice
- cheat
- chicanery
- device
- dishonesty
- evasion
- excuse
- fraud
- plan
- pretense
- refuge
- scheme
- shift
- sophistry
- trick
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Karen doesn’t have to keep up the subterfuge by returning through the same door.
SOME PEOPLE GO TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO SOOTHE THEIR NEUROTIC DOGSJOHN KELLYJULY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAcross eight episodes, the drama explores the perspectives of various family members engaged in personal feuds and business subterfuge.
THE NEXT AVA DUVERNAYSSEAN CULLIGANAPRIL 25, 2021OZYShe sought out affairs that required subterfuge and lies, then sabotaged them with open infidelities.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH’S SORDID SEARCH FOR INSPIRATIONWENDY SMITHJANUARY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey were built so users could share banal life updates or pictures, their founders never anticipating their products would one day contribute to an attempted subterfuge of American democracy.
WHAT IF THE WEB LOOKED MORE LIKE WIKIPEDIA?ALEX FITZPATRICKJANUARY 15, 2021TIMEThe deception, sabotage, and subterfuge continue throughout his quest to retake his home, and serve to spread the legend of “the Ghost,” a fallen samurai who has risen to exact revenge on the Mongol army.
IN GHOST OF TSUSHIMA, HONOR IS YOUR GREATEST FOEPATRICK LUCAS AUSTINJULY 14, 2020TIME"Only as a sister should think of an absent brother," returned Dorothy, ashamed of the subterfuge.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEI never feared any thing but guilt, and I will not purchase life at the expense of a base subterfuge.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTNecessity drove me to subterfuge: I pretended total inability to distinguish the needles.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANHe passionately denounced the surrender, the "policy of subterfuge and crooked ways," which threatened to founder Italy.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGThis was too transparent a subterfuge to deceive one even so unaccustomed to life in these solitudes as Jack Dudley.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLISWORDS RELATED TO SUBTERFUGE
- artifice
- blind
- cheat
- chicanery
- crocodile tears
- deception
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- duplicity
- fake
- feint
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- hoax
- humbug
- imposture
- misrepresentation
- pretense
- ruse
- sell
- sellout
- sham
- shift
- smoke and mirrors
- snow job
- soft soap
- spoof
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- sweet-talk
- swindle
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.