subterfuge
Example Sentences
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The Miami Hurricanes’ coach has turned the natural secrecy, stealth, and subterfuge of college football and turned it into his signature.
They found tests showed it was possible, but there was no evidence of this type of subterfuge taking place.
From BBC
Pulling it off required 18 months of meticulous planning, daring subterfuge, high-tech gadgets, cool nerves—and a dollop of luck.
“The Baron of Wall Street” proclaims that Dillon—not alone in his era—enriched himself through “chicanery, subterfuge, and graft.”
Barbara, 70, even had a Canadian lapel pin in her pocket – a gift from another tourist - which she thought might come in useful if further subterfuge proved necessary.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
