subterfuge

• International convention mandates a uniform to distinguish a soldier from a non-combatant, but for a guerilla for whom stealth and subterfuge are assets as he weaves through the population, this can be an encumbrance. —  Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)
• He failed entirely in the attempt to reproduce the story given him, and used the talk about the Titanic disaster as a subterfuge--as a ready means of escape from the difficulty in which he found himself He himself threw some light upon the part played by his craving for self-esteem in his statement: "When I tell of all these big things it makes me feel that I'm a little above the common herd of negroes." —  Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
• It had been as if she looked on that as a kind of subterfuge--almost as a form of disloyalty. —  The Golden Bowl — Complete
• "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. —  Study of a Woman
• The spin and subterfuge are there to obtain a goal. —  A View from Middle England by Arden Forester

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