英语词汇“subterfuge”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

If you want to surprise your mom with a sweatshirt, but don't know her size, it might take an act of subterfuge, like going through her closet, to find it out. Subterfuge is the use of tricky actions to hide or get something.

It's pronounced "SUB-ter-fyooj." As a countable noun, a subterfuge is a tricky action or device: She employed a very clever subterfuge to get the information she needed. Subterfuge is from French, from Old French suterfuge, from Late Latin subterfugium, from Latin subterfugere "to escape," from subter "secretly, under" plus fugere "to flee."

WORD FAMILY

subterfuge: subterfuges

USAGE EXAMPLES

Emails of top Democrats were hacked and leaked in what U.S. intelligence officials called Russian subterfuge against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016)

“No employment off the books. No subterfuge,” he said.

Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016)

This is a golden age of chemical discovery - and subterfuge.

Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016)

n something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge

Syn|Hyper

blind

deceit, deception, misrepresentation

a misleading falsehood

单词	subterfuge
释义	subterfuge (once / 3448 pages) n If you want to surprise your mom with a sweatshirt, but don't know her size, it might take an act of subterfuge, like going through her closet, to find it out. Subterfuge is the use of tricky actions to hide or get something. It's pronounced "SUB-ter-fyooj." As a countable noun, a subterfuge is a tricky action or device: She employed a very clever subterfuge to get the information she needed. Subterfuge is from French, from Old French suterfuge, from Late Latin subterfugium, from Latin subterfugere "to escape," from subter "secretly, under" plus fugere "to flee." WORD FAMILY subterfuge: subterfuges USAGE EXAMPLES Emails of top Democrats were hacked and leaked in what U.S. intelligence officials called Russian subterfuge against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) “No employment off the books. No subterfuge,” he said. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) This is a golden age of chemical discovery - and subterfuge. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) n something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge Syn\|Hyper blind deceit, deception, misrepresentation a misleading falsehood
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