SUBTERFUGE meaning: Deception used to achieve goals

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word subterfuge:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

subterfuge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subterfuge: Merriam-Webster
subterfuge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
subterfuge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
subterfuge: Collins English Dictionary
subterfuge: Vocabulary.com
Subterfuge, subterfuge: Wordnik
subterfuge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
subterfuge: Wiktionary
subterfuge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
subterfuge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
subterfuge: Infoplease Dictionary
subterfuge: Dictionary.com
subterfuge: Online Etymology Dictionary
subterfuge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Subterfuge (song), Subterfuge (video game), Subterfuge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Subterfuge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
subterfuge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
subterfuge: Rhymezone
subterfuge, subterfuge (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
subterfuge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
subterfuge: FreeDictionary.org
subterfuge: Mnemonic Dictionary
subterfuge: TheFreeDictionary.com
subterfuge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

subterfuge: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

subterfuge: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

subterfuge: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: (countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.

Similar:

blind, stratagem, trickery, chicanery, wile, ruse, device, subtlety, maneuver, chicaning, more...

Opposite:

frank, candid, open, honest

Types:

deception, dissimulation, mendacity, prevarication, artifice, chicanery, collusion, connivance, more...

Phrases:

given to subterfuge, more...

Adjectives:

mere, such, little, miserable, legal, mean, political, clever, elaborate, transparent, wretched

Colors:

charcoal, midnight blue, slate gray, olive drab, burgundy, more...