subterfuge 音标拼音: [s'ʌbtɚfj
, udʒ]
n . 遁辞,借口,托辞
遁辞,藉口,托辞
subterfuge n 1 :
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity ; "
he wasn '
t sick --
it was just a subterfuge "; "
the holding company was just a blind " [
synonym : {
subterfuge },
{
blind }]
Subterfuge \
Sub "
ter *
fuge \,
n . [
F .,
from LL .
subterfugium ,
fr .
L .
subterfugere to flee secretly ,
to escape ;
subter under fugere to flee .
See {
Fugitive }.]
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment ;
an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument ,
or to justify opinions or conduct ;
a shift ;
an evasion .
[
1913 Webster ]
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges ,
to avoid the force of an argument . --
I .
Watts .
[
1913 Webster ]
By a miserable subterfuge ,
they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory . --
Burke .
[
1913 Webster ]
203 Moby Thesaurus words for "
subterfuge ":
airtight secrecy ,
alibi ,
apology ,
art ,
artful dodge ,
artifice ,
bag of tricks ,
bamboozlement ,
befooling ,
bickering ,
blind ,
bluff ,
bluffing ,
boggling ,
bosey ,
burial ,
burying ,
calculated deception ,
captiousness ,
catch ,
caviling ,
cheat ,
chicane ,
chicanery ,
chouse ,
circumvention ,
cloak ,
close secrecy ,
closeness ,
clouding ,
color ,
concealedness ,
concealment ,
conning ,
conspiracy ,
contrivance ,
coup ,
cover ,
cover story ,
cover -
up ,
covering ,
covering up ,
covertness ,
craft ,
crypticness ,
curve ,
curve -
ball ,
cute trick ,
darkening ,
deceit ,
deceiving ,
deception ,
deceptiveness ,
defrauding ,
delusion ,
delusiveness ,
design ,
device ,
dirty deal ,
dirty trick ,
discreetness ,
discretion ,
dishonesty ,
dodge ,
dodging ,
double -
dealing ,
dupery ,
enmeshment ,
ensnarement ,
entanglement ,
entrapment ,
equivocation ,
evasion ,
evasiveness ,
excuse ,
expedient ,
facade ,
fakement ,
fallaciousness ,
fallacy ,
falseness ,
fast deal ,
feint ,
fencing ,
fetch ,
ficelle ,
flimflam ,
flimflammery ,
fond illusion ,
fooling ,
fraud ,
front ,
gambit ,
game ,
gimmick ,
gloss ,
googly ,
grift ,
guise ,
hairsplitting ,
hallucination ,
handle ,
hedging ,
hiddenness ,
hiding ,
hocus -
pocus ,
hoodwinking ,
hugger -
mugger ,
hugger -
muggery ,
illusion ,
interment ,
intrigue ,
invisibility ,
joker ,
juggle ,
jugglery ,
kidding ,
knavery ,
lame excuse ,
little game ,
locus standi ,
logic -
chopping ,
maneuver ,
mask ,
masking ,
mirage ,
move ,
mystification ,
nit -
picking ,
obscuration ,
obscurement ,
occultation ,
ostensible motive ,
outwitting ,
overreaching ,
paltering ,
parrying ,
pass ,
pettifoggery ,
phantasm ,
plot ,
ploy ,
poor excuse ,
pretense ,
pretension ,
pretext ,
prevarication ,
protestation ,
public motive ,
pussyfooting ,
put -
off ,
putting away ,
putting on ,
quibbling ,
racket ,
red herring ,
refuge ,
ruse ,
scheme ,
screen ,
screening ,
scurvy trick ,
secrecy ,
secretion ,
secretiveness ,
secretness ,
self -
deception ,
semblance ,
sham ,
shift ,
shifting ,
show ,
shuffling ,
sidestepping ,
sleight ,
sleight of hand ,
sleight -
of -
hand trick ,
smoke screen ,
snow job ,
song and dance ,
spoofery ,
spoofing ,
stalking -
horse ,
stratagem ,
strategy ,
swindling ,
tactic ,
tergiversation ,
the dark ,
trichoschistism ,
trick ,
trickery ,
trickiness ,
tricking ,
uncommunicativeness ,
varnish ,
veil ,
victimization ,
vision ,
wile ,
willful misconception ,
wily device ,
wishful thinking
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