Crossword-Solution: SUBTERFUGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subterfuge | n. | 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. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SUBTERFUGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | 1 answer |
| deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal or evade | 1 answer |
| Creephole. | 1 answer |
| Tricky action | 2 answers |
| DECEPTIVE TACTIC | 11 answers |
| Gambit | 27 answers |
| Gimmick | 30 answers |
| Maneuver | 35 answers |
| machination | 36 answers |
| Ruse | 37 answers |
| escaping | 44 answers |
| Dodge | 57 answers |
| Hoax | 58 answers |
| Manoeuvre | 59 answers |
| bluff | 74 answers |
| Artifice | 75 answers |
| pretext | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUBTERFUGE (5)
This is why integration is a subterfuge for the maintenance or white supremacy." If blacks could gain control of their own neighborhoods, each community, black and white, could define its own goals and be responsible for achieving its own standards.
When he thrust, however, I was not there, for I had fought with therns before; and while none had ever resorted to precisely that same expedient, I knew them to be the least honorable and most treacherous fighters upon Mars, and so was ever on the alert for some new and devilish subterfuge when I was engaged with one of their race.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
And we do not want to be cheated out of our good fortune in having been the first to secure so valuable a prize.” “You need have no fear on that score, madam,” retorted Halfdan, with a vivid blush, and purposely misinterpreting the polite subterfuge.
Half mad with terror, the girl seized upon the only subterfuge which seemed at all likely to succeed.
Quotes with SUBTERFUGE (3)
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.
Dear 2600: I think my girlfriend has been cheating on me and I wanted to know if I could get her password to Hotmail and AOL. I am so desperate to find out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. And this is yet another popular category of letter we get. You say any help would be appreciated? Let’s find out if thats true. Do you think someone who is cheating on you might also be capable of having a mailbox you don’t know about? Do you think that even if you could get into the…
We never look at the grass, though it is ubiquitous. If it's left alone to shake its hair loose it will produce tiny tassels and flowers, miniature and beautiful, that I'd never noticed before. Beauty is so often size and commotion for us, and fancy labels, that the subterfuge of loveliness all around us goes unseen.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–1985).