Sample sentences for SUBTERFUGE

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something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

Subterfuges and deceptions.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

Now stern Aeneas his weighty spear Against his foe, and thus upbraids his fear: "What farther subterfuge can Turnus find?
Virgil -- The Aeneid
And suddenly, in the space of two minutes she achieved her victory and justified herself to herself without lie or subterfuge, cut the cord forever.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
The woods, Miguel, and love were lost in the deep well of her terror and she resigned herself to facing her fate without subterfuge.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
Why do you force me to idiotic subterfuges?" he exclaimed with sudden warmth.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
The subterfuges people have used to get their parents here—wow, pretty ingenious.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
I think of subterfuges: examining his shirts for perfume, tailing him along the street, hiding in the closet and jumping out, red-hot with discovery.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Despite his subterfuge, Arya appeared unconvinced.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
But I don't bother with any subterfuge—no sunglasses, no cap.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
I knew only I was as powerfully drawn to him as before; and to some extent the words I spoke now were a subterfuge.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
I like a straightforward course, and am always reluctant to resort to subterfuges.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
And yet the very fact that Shakespeare had to use these subterfuges shows how widely his thoughts ranged.
George Orwell -- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Is the subterfuge good enough, Machiavelli?
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
And thus I'd have a subterfuge on demand With which my conscience might muddle through In swearing to things that I knew weren't true.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
You'll get tired of this subterfuge.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
This subterfuge would be assisted by the fact of his staying at Corbin castle, instead of at the actual place of the tournament.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
He endeavored to laugh her off, and then tried subterfuge, and lastly he cast off his mask and let her see his naked soul.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
And after all, bargains and subterfuge are a way of life for him.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
You are shocked that I have proposed a subterfuge.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
No subterfuge was necessary: immediately after eating, Raymond had gone back to his study.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

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