Skip to main content

subterfuge

/suhb-ter-fyooj/US // ˈsʌb tərˌfyudʒ //UK // (ˈsʌbtəˌfjuːdʒ) //

潜规则,隐蔽性,伪装,掩饰

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Karen doesn’t have to keep up the subterfuge by returning through the same door.

  • Across eight episodes, the drama explores the perspectives of various family members engaged in personal feuds and business subterfuge.

  • She sought out affairs that required subterfuge and lies, then sabotaged them with open infidelities.

  • They were built so users could share banal life updates or pictures, their founders never anticipating their products would one day contribute to an attempted subterfuge of American democracy.

  • The deception, sabotage, and subterfuge continue throughout his quest to retake his home, and serve to spread the legend of “the Ghost,” a fallen samurai who has risen to exact revenge on the Mongol army.

  • The websites, subterfuge, and paid surrogates cost them money.

  • Delving into why this slaughter never happened uncovers a story of spy-craft, subterfuge and tightly-kept secrets.

  • So why, after a year of careful subterfuge, did Harry decide to publicly embrace Cressida on Wednesday morning?

  • The witnesses were used in the worst possible way, as a sort of subterfuge to play on emotions.

  • The best way to dismantle Israel as a Jewish state is through subterfuge.

  • "Only as a sister should think of an absent brother," returned Dorothy, ashamed of the subterfuge.

  • I never feared any thing but guilt, and I will not purchase life at the expense of a base subterfuge.

  • Necessity drove me to subterfuge: I pretended total inability to distinguish the needles.

  • He passionately denounced the surrender, the "policy of subterfuge and crooked ways," which threatened to founder Italy.

  • This was too transparent a subterfuge to deceive one even so unaccustomed to life in these solitudes as Jack Dudley.