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Exact Match:

subterfuge

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"

Synonyms:

• 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