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noun ruːz An action intended to deceive someone; a trick. Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house Example sentencesExamples - The booming voice and scare tactics turn out to be a ruse, a way of hiding a small and powerless man, who is no wizard at all.
- A stand off in the Black Sea with Turkey is so much part and parcel of most openings that it can easily be dismissed as a ruse to deceive.
- Palestinians claim the move is a ruse to distract the world while Israel tightens its grip on the West Bank.
- A last-minute offer may be a ruse or a bluff but I'm the guy who ought to make that call.
- I have described before in this space how, during the chaotic feeding frenzy of the last bull market, city restaurateurs devised all sorts of tricks and ruses in an attempt to break out of the stodgy-though-profitable steakhouse box.
- This is a major reason why Palestinians are criticizing the Israeli move as a ruse.
- The NHS is being distorted by trickery and ruses.
- It does not prohibit the use of surprise, ruses, or stealthy tactics to kill enemy personnel.
- There are, in criminal investigations, a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence.
- Some authorities consider the term to have a wider application and to refer to any form of attack on the commander's mind and morale, including psychological warfare, electronic warfare, ruses, and deception.
- It should be obvious why I badly want to believe that this is a bluff or a ruse.
- It sucks you in and condemns you to hours of game play under the ruse of one last go.
- The ruse makes the IRS-themed scam more sophisticated than typical phishing attacks.
- Many of the characters feign casual confidence, but the ruse becomes apparent when things start to go wrong.
- One is at a loss whether to call the above ruse a fraud, inducement, immoral force, exploitation or all of these.
- It is a shame: if the alleged perpetrator were to work for the CIA, his fantastic charades and ruses might be put to excellent use.
- In time, the press and public came to view the petty ruses and gambits regularly employed by a host of Wall Street speculators as despised tools of fraud and monopoly when adopted by Gould.
- I'm not convinced they saw through my ruse of pretending to photograph someone else.
- One must conclude that we know an enormous amount about tricks and ruses (often concocted by brilliant practitioners) but very little about demonstrable impact.
- It is a device at that point in time, a trick and a ruse, and treating the House like a joke.
Synonyms ploy, stratagem, tactic, move, device, scheme, trick, gambit, cunning plan, manoeuvre, contrivance, expedient, dodge, subterfuge, machination, game, wile, smokescreen, red herring, blind the oldest trick in the book British informal wheeze archaic shift
Origin Late Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser 'use trickery', earlier 'drive back', perhaps based on Latin rursus 'backwards'. In hunting terminology a ruse was a turn or detour or other trick made by a hunted animal to escape the hounds. The word came from Old French ruser, which meant ‘to use trickery’ and which in another sense, ‘to drive back’, was also the origin of rush. The plant name rush is Old English
Rhymes abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse proper nounˈruːseɪˈro͞osā An industrial city and the principal port of Bulgaria, on the River Danube; population 156,959 (2008). Turkish during the Middle Ages, it was captured by Russia in 1877 and ceded to Bulgaria.
noun An action intended to deceive someone; a trick. Eleanor tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house Example sentencesExamples - It sucks you in and condemns you to hours of game play under the ruse of one last go.
- It is a shame: if the alleged perpetrator were to work for the CIA, his fantastic charades and ruses might be put to excellent use.
- Many of the characters feign casual confidence, but the ruse becomes apparent when things start to go wrong.
- A stand off in the Black Sea with Turkey is so much part and parcel of most openings that it can easily be dismissed as a ruse to deceive.
- It is a device at that point in time, a trick and a ruse, and treating the House like a joke.
- It should be obvious why I badly want to believe that this is a bluff or a ruse.
- A last-minute offer may be a ruse or a bluff but I'm the guy who ought to make that call.
- I'm not convinced they saw through my ruse of pretending to photograph someone else.
- This is a major reason why Palestinians are criticizing the Israeli move as a ruse.
- The booming voice and scare tactics turn out to be a ruse, a way of hiding a small and powerless man, who is no wizard at all.
- One must conclude that we know an enormous amount about tricks and ruses (often concocted by brilliant practitioners) but very little about demonstrable impact.
- The ruse makes the IRS-themed scam more sophisticated than typical phishing attacks.
- Some authorities consider the term to have a wider application and to refer to any form of attack on the commander's mind and morale, including psychological warfare, electronic warfare, ruses, and deception.
- It does not prohibit the use of surprise, ruses, or stealthy tactics to kill enemy personnel.
- There are, in criminal investigations, a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence.
- One is at a loss whether to call the above ruse a fraud, inducement, immoral force, exploitation or all of these.
- I have described before in this space how, during the chaotic feeding frenzy of the last bull market, city restaurateurs devised all sorts of tricks and ruses in an attempt to break out of the stodgy-though-profitable steakhouse box.
- The NHS is being distorted by trickery and ruses.
- In time, the press and public came to view the petty ruses and gambits regularly employed by a host of Wall Street speculators as despised tools of fraud and monopoly when adopted by Gould.
- Palestinians claim the move is a ruse to distract the world while Israel tightens its grip on the West Bank.
Synonyms ploy, stratagem, tactic, move, device, scheme, trick, gambit, cunning plan, manoeuvre, contrivance, expedient, dodge, subterfuge, machination, game, wile, smokescreen, red herring, blind
Origin Late Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser ‘use trickery’, earlier ‘drive back’, perhaps based on Latin rursus ‘backwards’. proper nounˈro͞osā An industrial city and the principal port of Bulgaria, on the Danube River; population 156,959 (2008).
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