Both Uses of
subterfuge
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.†
Chpt 2 *
- Where was the soul that had hung back from her destiny, to brood alone upon the shame of her wounds and in her house of squalor and subterfuge to queen it in faded cerements and in wreaths that withered at the touch?†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(subterfuge) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity