subterfuge
trickery
TRANSLATION
subterfuge = der Trick, die Täuschung --- GOOGLE INDEX subterfuge: approximately 1,700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Laurie Manifold, a former investigations editor who is described as "the father of modern popular paper investigative journalism", pioneered the use of SUBTERFUGE in the 1960s and 70s.
(BBC News)
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Demonstrating how the Iranian regime used Facebook to learn the identities of protesters, and employed Twitter and texting to manipulate the opposition and the general population with SUBTERFUGE and lies, Mr. Morozov shows how the Internet cuts both ways in politics.
(The New York Observer)
(BBC News)
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Demonstrating how the Iranian regime used Facebook to learn the identities of protesters, and employed Twitter and texting to manipulate the opposition and the general population with SUBTERFUGE and lies, Mr. Morozov shows how the Internet cuts both ways in politics.
(The New York Observer)
Did you
know?
subterfuge
noun
- a trick or a dishonest way of achieving something
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Subterfuge on Stage
"She's not so great," a fellow actress once proclaimed of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. "I can upstage her any time." "Darling," Tallulah retorted, "I can upstage you without even being on stage!"
She proved her point at their next performance. In one scene, while her rival was engaged in a prolonged telephone conversation, Bankhead put down the champagne glass from which she had been drinking and then exited the stage.
As the half-filled glass was in a precarious position and teetering at the very edge of the table - half on, half off - the audience was gasping, riveted by the endangered glass and not paying any attention to Bankhead's fellow actress.
As it turned out, Bankhead had affixed adhesive tape to the bottom of the glass in an act of subterfuge.
Etymology: From the Middle French subterfuge and Latin subterfugere, "to evade, escape, flee by stealth" (related to fugitive).
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SYNONYMS
deception, ploy, ruse, scheme, trick
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Some companies will even use subterfuge to beat the competition."
noun
- a trick or a dishonest way of achieving something
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Subterfuge on Stage
"She's not so great," a fellow actress once proclaimed of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. "I can upstage her any time." "Darling," Tallulah retorted, "I can upstage you without even being on stage!"
She proved her point at their next performance. In one scene, while her rival was engaged in a prolonged telephone conversation, Bankhead put down the champagne glass from which she had been drinking and then exited the stage.
As the half-filled glass was in a precarious position and teetering at the very edge of the table - half on, half off - the audience was gasping, riveted by the endangered glass and not paying any attention to Bankhead's fellow actress.
As it turned out, Bankhead had affixed adhesive tape to the bottom of the glass in an act of subterfuge.
Etymology: From the Middle French subterfuge and Latin subterfugere, "to evade, escape, flee by stealth" (related to fugitive).
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SYNONYMS
deception, ploy, ruse, scheme, trick
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Some companies will even use subterfuge to beat the competition."
