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subterfuge
Synonyms and Antonyms of subterfuge
- propagandists who use a kind of photographic subterfuge, superimposing one image on another to create a false "reality"
artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wiliness
crookedness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerity
Synonym Discussion of subterfuge
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- magicians are masters of deception
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- indicted for fraud
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- a go-between suspected of double-dealing
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- obtained the papers by subterfuge
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- resorted to trickery to gain their ends
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