SUBTERFUGE Synonyms

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• the quality of being deceitful

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

• acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

• the deliberate act of failing to pay money

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• the quality of being crafty

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

• a maneuver in a game or conversation

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• adopted in order to deceive

• make a pretence of

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• a maneuver in a game or conversation

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• betrayal of a trust

• an act of deliberate betrayal

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)