About The Word Subterfuge
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Subterfuge
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What's The Definition Of Subterfuge?
[n] 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 | Synonyms for Subterfuge: blind Related Terms | Find terms related to Subterfuge: See Also | deceit | deception | misrepresentation Subterfuge In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the
force of an argument. --I. Watts.
By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this
position safe by rendering it nugatory. --Burke.
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