subterfuges in English

noun

1

deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.

Jonson's plays challenged the audience to examine the impact of a society governed by deceit and subterfuge .

synonyms: trickery, intrigue, deviousness, deceit, deception, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity, guile, cunning, craftiness, chicanery, pretense, fraud, fraudulence, trick, hoax, ruse, wile, ploy, stratagem, artifice, dodge, bluff, pretense, deception, fraud, blind, smokescreen, con, scam

noun

trickery, intrigue, deviousness, deceit, deception, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity, guile, cunning, craftiness, chicanery, pretense, fraud, fraudulence
trick, hoax, ruse, wile, ploy, stratagem, artifice, dodge, bluff, pretense, deception, fraud, blind, smokescreen, con, scam
blind

Use "subterfuges" in a sentence

1. What does Chicane mean? To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use Chicanery

2. The Blackmailers might be a twenty-first-century police procedural, except for the nineteenth-century morality, and the detective's penchant for quirky disguises and elaborate subterfuges

3. There was also an agreement as to selling prices , which , however , did not work , as members resorted to various subterfuges to circumvent it , creating bitterness and ill - will in the process .