Crossword-Solution: RUSE 4 letters, 216 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word Word Type Definition
Ruse n. An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

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RUSE anagram REUS, RUES, SUER, SURE, URES, USER

We have 216 clues for the answer “RUSE”

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Concealed scheme meant to mislead 1 answer
"Wool over the eyes" gambit. 1 answer
A cunning move. 1 answer
Action to mislead 1 answer
An action intended to deceive or trick someone 1 answer
An attempt to pull wool over the eyes. 1 answer
April Fools' Day action 1 answer
Bit of beguilement 1 answer
Bit of craft 1 answer
Bit of misdirection 1 answer
Bit of slyness 1 answer
Bit of sneakiness 1 answer
Blind, to a duck 1 answer
Con man's device 1 answer
Conniving trick 1 answer
Crafty Move 1 answer
Crafty expedient. 1 answer
Crafty manuever 1 answer
Crafty stratagem 1 answer
Deceiver's tactic 1 answer
Deceptive plan 1 answer
Deceptive ploy 1 answer
Deceptive stratagem 1 answer
Device for deceiving 1 answer
Duplicitous plan 1 answer
Duplicitous scheme 1 answer
FOXY move 1 answer
Fake-out 1 answer
Fiendish plan, perhaps 1 answer
Intent to deceive 1 answer
Madlyn of "houston knights" 1 answer
Misleading tactic 1 answer
Misleading trick 1 answer
One way to get you 1 answer
Part of the planning for many a surprise birthday party 1 answer
Resort of the wily. 1 answer
Scammer's ploy 1 answer
Deceptive trick or ploy 1 answer
Setup for a surprise party 1 answer
Slick device 1 answer
Slick move 1 answer
Slick scheme 1 answer
Sly strategem 1 answer
Sly strategy 1 answer
Sneaky move 1 answer
Sneaky ploy 1 answer
Sneaky scheme 1 answer
Stratagem, trick 1 answer
The Trojan horse, e.g. 1 answer
Three kids in a trenchcoat, e.g. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with RUSE (5)

The fellow whose ruse had put me down was springing toward me, the point of his gleaming blade directed straight at my heart, and as he came there rang from his lips the cruel and mocking peal of laughter that I had heard within the Chamber of Mystery.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Against what, pray, should we guard this long-forgotten, abysmal path? It was but a ruse to divide our numbers.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The more she thought of the matter, the more convinced she became that the recent telephone message might be but a ruse to keep them inactive until the boy was safely hidden away or spirited out of England.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Our only hope lies in traveling northward as rapidly as we may, of coming to the camp of the raiders before the knowledge of Achmet Zek’s death reaches those who were left there, and of obtaining, through some ruse, an escort toward the north.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
All ladies do that sort of thing now; not for profit, you know, but as a guarantee of mental respectability to their future husbands.” “An excellent idea of us ladies.” “Though I am afraid it rather resembles the melancholy ruse of throwing loaves over castle-walls at besiegers, and suggests desperation rather than plenty inside.” “Did you ever try it?” “No; I was too far gone even for that.” “Papa says no publisher will take my book.” “That remains to be proved.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

Quotes with RUSE (3)

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Tod…
Irvin D. Yalom The Schopenhauer Cure
After a Time After a time, all losses are the same. One more thing lost is one thing less to lose; And we go stripped at last the way we came. Though we shall probe, time and again, our shame, Who lack the wit to keep or to refuse, After a time, all losses are the same. No wit, no luck can beat a losing game; Good fortune is a reassuring ruse: And we go stripped at last the way we came. Rage as we will for what we think to claim, Nothing so much as this bare thought subdues: …
Catherine Davis
A weight lands on me, and a strong doubt that I will not be able to fully commit to the ideas of this strange religion out here in the cold north. I look at the girl’s pale skin flushed slightly across her high cheekbones and wonder if she, perhaps, is Katherine Redford and the article we read was wrong. Maybe her ruse is an old woman but she is, in fact, a young girl. There is something more comforting in that idea, to be healed by a child uninterested in fame or money. A gi…
Annie Fisher The Greater Picture
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Used 528 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).