subterfuge
Noun
Meaning
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.
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We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
You have to expect a measure of subterfuge in any political engagement.
After Rootenberg was found guilty, he trained his prodigious talent for bluster and subterfuge on a different kind of target: the courts.
As such, players need to rely on Wolf's prowess in both sword fighting and subterfuge to make it through the game's difficult levels.