If you want to surprise your mom with a sweatshirt, but don't know her size, it might take an act of subterfuge, like going through her closet, to find it out. Subterfuge is the use of tricky actions to hide or get something.
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Noun
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn''t sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"
n.
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an
artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to
justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Subterfuge
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument.
By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory.
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
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