subterfuge

Example Sentences

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The chairman of the Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance vowed "to unearth the various devices and subterfuges employed by tax dodgers."

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2021

Weil kept a sharp eye out for the subterfuges used by businesses to claim they weren’t really “employers” of their workers, such as by asserting that the workers are merely “independent contractors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

The exchange with Place made me understand a little more what I had found disquieting about this episode: so many subterfuges about power, so much veiled aggression, so much obfuscation about motives.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2018

Like the Lambs’ retellings, this “Lear” extracts a streamlined narrative essence from a play that often in production baffles audiences, with all the subterfuges, disguises and shifting allegiances.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2013

I think of subterfuges: examining his shirts for perfume, tailing him along the street, hiding in the closet and jumping out, red-hot with discovery.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood