ruse

Her ruse is certainly not persuasive to anyone outside of the GOP voting base.

Clearly a ruse for yet another Pride parade or Latin American gang invasion.

And he called complaints that the city should have required an environmental impact report “a ruse,” saying the project simply did not meet the requirements established by the state.

But it was just a ruse - according to the account delivered by the Pentagon - a decoy to distract from the top-secret flights heading straight for Iran over the Atlantic.

The cut on Amy’s finger was a ruse — a desperate act to access care.