Vocabulary Word
Word: subterfuge
Definition: stratagem(deceptive scheme); pretense; evasion; Ex. resort to a harmless subterfuge
Definition: stratagem(deceptive scheme); pretense; evasion; Ex. resort to a harmless subterfuge
Sentences Containing 'subterfuge'
Senor Sancho Panza must know that we too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her; and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is under at present."
It availed me nothing with those charged with our sad expatriation to protest this, nor would my uncles believe it; on the contrary, they treated it as an untruth and a subterfuge set up to enable me to remain behind in the land of my birth; and so, more by force than of my own will, they took me with them.
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