smokescreen

Noun

Meaning

an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure

(military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements

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requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures Source: Internet

According to Matlock's later description, Cook "created a smokescreen" by claiming Jones was not skilled enough to be the band's sole guitarist. Source: Internet

AYCF insisted that no Nigerian, regardless of social standing, should get away with endangering anyone’s life, using religion as a “smokescreen for achieving dangerous goals.” Source: Internet

In other words, the Fed's recent reduction in repos (money added into the system) is just a smokescreen because the Fed is more than offsetting it on the other end of it books. Source: Internet

And Chinamasa said the issue raised in the international media about human rights abuses in Zimbabwe was a mere smokescreen to hide British and US opposition to the land reform programme. Source: Internet

In other words, those that rationalize these things as the inevitable and inexorable outcomes of "supply and demand" are just blowing a smokescreen to hide what they’re up to. Source: Internet

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