How do you use Subterfuge in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like blind or misrepresentation, plus the exact meaning.
Subterfuge meaning
- An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics.
- Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
Synonyms of Subterfuge
Using Subterfuge
- The main meaning on this page is: An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics. | Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
- Useful related words include: blind, misrepresentation, deceit, deception.
- In the example corpus, subterfuge often appears in combinations such as: and subterfuge, subterfuge to, subterfuge and.
Context around Subterfuge
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subterfuge
- In this selection, "subterfuge" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, detect, subtlety, political, helps, designed and everything stand out and add context to how "subterfuge" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a necessary subterfuge he argued and and government subterfuge that followed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subterfuge" sits close to words such as abenaki, adria and afn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subterfuge
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Dark Lord didn't expect subterfuge. (7 words)
Doctors claim that it’s not their job to detect subterfuge. (11 words)
For a film about subterfuge, the oddest thing is the blatancy of it all. (14 words)
I suspect that the BBC and New York Times led whatever coverage there was of the Kursk’s sinking in the west, but were limited by the avalanche of misinformation, false leads, rumors and government subterfuge that followed in its wake in Russia. (43 words)
Symbolized as one’s capacity to navigate social situations with subtlety, Subterfuge helps a Vampire slip their way past interrogations, convince a mortal to believe them, or lie to a fellow Kindred through the skin of their teeth. (38 words)
The real-world echoes here are obvious, mythological subterfuge notwithstanding: Bassett’s character, a rope-maker’s daughter who married above her station, is treated as some kind of unworthy outsider, shunned for her (relatively) proletarian background. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
An evening of subterfuge and fortunate dice rolls allowed the Bells Hells and their allies to wipe out a portion of the Ruby Vanguard's mechanisms.
C-3PO is a neurotic mess at the best of times, so he is probably the least likely character to be able to pull off espionage and subterfuge.
Doctors claim that it’s not their job to detect subterfuge.
Richard provides a naive sense of morality in a political world consumed by greed and subterfuge.
Symbolized as one’s capacity to navigate social situations with subtlety, Subterfuge helps a Vampire slip their way past interrogations, convince a mortal to believe them, or lie to a fellow Kindred through the skin of their teeth.
The county legislator suggested that the ongoing debate around wastewater infrastructure was little more than political subterfuge designed to stir confusion and blame the Republican caucus.
The Dark Lord didn't expect subterfuge.
The party alleged that the APC's subterfuge has refused to go away more than a month after the elections.
There’s fighting, shooting, subterfuge; everything readers need to stay on the edge of their seat from page to page.
He won the seat of Casey in Melbourne’s outer east by campaigning in a three-piece suit – a necessary subterfuge, he argued, because the media had conditioned the voters to trust only the conventional.
It is with this sword that he slaughtered most of the Elder Primes and why he was able to overpower them beyond his subterfuge.
She heads to the Tunisian capital of Tunis under a new identity, but it is not long before her subterfuge catches up with her.
The real-world echoes here are obvious, mythological subterfuge notwithstanding: Bassett’s character, a rope-maker’s daughter who married above her station, is treated as some kind of unworthy outsider, shunned for her (relatively) proletarian background.
The subterfuge is an easy one – payments are made to a company in Ireland for the number of hours worked and thus vary every month.
After Rootenberg was found guilty, he trained his prodigious talent for bluster and subterfuge on a different kind of target: the courts.
As such, players need to rely on Wolf's prowess in both sword fighting and subterfuge to make it through the game's difficult levels.
For a film about subterfuge, the oddest thing is the blatancy of it all.
No one read the bottle and I had a stubbie holder on hand, should I need some subterfuge.
BMO said that the opposition party and its supporters had banked on a repeat of the subterfuge that led to a renegade APC member emerging as Senate President with its support, but lost out.
I suspect that the BBC and New York Times led whatever coverage there was of the Kursk’s sinking in the west, but were limited by the avalanche of misinformation, false leads, rumors and government subterfuge that followed in its wake in Russia.
Common combinations with subterfuge
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and subterfuge 5×
- subterfuge to 5×
- subterfuge and 4×
- this subterfuge 4×
- of subterfuge 2×
- subterfuge has 2×
- his subterfuge 2×
- the subterfuge 2×
- russian subterfuge 2×
- subterfuge that 2×