Did you mayhaps mean silkscreen?
Definitions
Etymologies
- From smoke + screen (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In a clarification issued here on Tuesday, in the context of what he described as the smokescreen being created over the issue by the Opposition with political motives, the Minister said TECOM made the demand only at the time when the lease deed had to be re-registered due to technical reasons.”
“I've got to think this is a McCain smokescreen to divert attention from the real issue here: how and why McCain selected this tyro.”
“The Republicans think their own pathetic smokescreen is too strong.”
Think Progress » House Conservatives Abandon Ethics Reform, End Debate on Bill With No Vote
“Adobe boss: Jobs 'excuses are a "smokescreen" - Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday issued a rare public letter, explaining why his company wouldn't permit Flash on the iPhone or iPad.”
“I agree its a lousy smokescreen, which is a pretty good indication as to what the courts would decide.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional”
“The smokescreen is the Fl/MI delegates. .which is nothing but noise in the background to justify her staying in the race when the real reason is because Obama is the 'black' candidate who cannot win the general.”
“And we think that it goes beyond just this so-called smokescreen of weapons of mass destruction.”
“It all adds up to what Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet medical journal, calls a "smokescreen of device regulation which is putting patients at risk.”
“In our lives as adults, however, playing the victim not only acts as a "smokescreen" (keeping us from taking responsibility and feeling our real emotions), it also causes a great deal of harm in relationships, at work, with our health, and much more.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us
“Abortion-reduction talk, she says, is a "smokescreen" to obscure the real problems: the legal availability of abortion, and what she sees as the targeting of predominantly black areas with Planned Parenthood clinics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smokescreen’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
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List I
effortless, sloppy, undignified, sprawled, paradigm, asinine, reek, stench, impassive, devoid, meticulously, logical fallacy and 79 more...
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qroqqa v.t. form a smoke-screen over
'I did not write the book,' he replied every time, a Gauloise smokescreening his white polo-necked sweater and mustachioed smile.
— Julian Barnes, 1996, 'Gnossienne', in Cross Channel Jul 10, 2008