subterfuge
noun
[ ˈsʌbtəfjuːdʒ ]
• deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.
• "he had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions"
Similar:
trickery,
intrigue,
deviousness,
evasion,
deceit,
deception,
dishonesty,
cheating,
duplicity,
guile,
cunning,
craft,
craftiness,
slyness,
chicanery,
bluff,
pretence,
fraud,
fraudulence,
sophistry,
sharp practice,
monkey business,
funny business,
hanky-panky,
jiggery-pokery,
kidology,
every trick in the book,
codology,
trick,
hoax,
ruse,
wile,
ploy,
stratagem,
artifice,
dodge,
manoeuvre,
machination,
pretext,
expedient,
tactic,
scheme,
masquerade,
blind,
smokescreen,
sleight,
stunt,
game,
con,
racket,
scam,
caper,
wheeze,
lurk,
shift,
Origin:
late 16th century: from French, or from late Latin subterfugium, from Latin subterfugere ‘escape secretly’, from subter- ‘beneath’ + fugere ‘flee’.
