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Definition of Subterfuges

Subterfuge
Subterfuge 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.

Meaning of Subterfuges from wikipedia

- Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver...
- subterfuge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Subterfuge may refer to: Deception, causing someone to believe something that is not true "Subterfuge"...
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- free dictionary. Chicanery is a form of deception involving trickery or subterfuge. Chicanery may also refer to: Chicanery, 2015 film by Charles Dennis "Chicanery"...
- for about twenty years, often involving incidents of one-upsmanship and subterfuge from both parties. The two actors first met each other in 1977 when ****igned...
- ISBN 9780873066440. Dundes, Alan (2002). The Shabbat Elevator and other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Cir****venting Custom and Jewish Character. Rowman...