It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. From LearnThat.org. [Grover Cleveland]
He wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Despite what Zachriel may think, subterfuge is not an Olympic event. From Wordnik.com. [After thoughts on Barr] Reference
More subterfuge is discovered, and in the end, the unicorn with the Jewel of Judgement appears. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Great Book of Amber - Roger Zelazny] Reference
Thank you, HBM for referring to all that which can only remain subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [Getting The Funk Out | Her Bad Mother] Reference
The subterfuge was the Ethiopians putting the war lords back into power in Somolia. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The U.S. has launched air strikes in Somalia] Reference
So the only way to get in there was to use -- using subterfuge, which is what I did. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001] Reference
And the British comic insists the subterfuge is a sure-fire way of getting girls between the sheets. From Wordnik.com. [ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News] Reference
That word subterfuge rankled, as it must in any honourable mind, and she began -- 'I wish you would do Theresa justice. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
We will not use any kind of subterfuge or obstacles. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO DISCUSSES IMMIGRATION AGREEMENT WITH U.S.] Reference
This kind of subterfuge should be beneath even Congress. From Wordnik.com. [You Vote, They Don't Listen] Reference
But they involve things such as subterfuge and duplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius Hunter accuses Behe of Circular Reasoning] Reference
Reminds me that we've all got some kind of subterfuge going on in our lives, right?. From Wordnik.com. [I Need To Say This...] Reference
Since there was no attempt at the kind of subterfuge you describe here, I left it alone. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Publicists:] Reference
This "subterfuge," as Mr. Hansen terms it, shifts the direct burden onto businesses, which then pass it along to consumers. From Wordnik.com. [Some Carbon Candor] Reference
With her I could not use the same kind of subterfuge I had used with Joan Wellman, since she had known Dykes as Baird Archer. From Wordnik.com. [Murder By The Book]
The subterfuge is not sophisticated. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-10] Reference
"Further subterfuge is useless," I said to him. From Wordnik.com. [My Robin] Reference
The man is accused of using "subterfuge" to get housing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
Should news organizations be using this kind of subterfuge to get stories?. From Wordnik.com. [Hit & Run] Reference
"I'm sure that that kind of subterfuge wouldn't work under international law.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News] Reference
The idea of the readiness codes is to thwart just the kind of subterfuge xyzzy has in mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Cars] Reference
The subterfuge was a waste of time. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune’s Fool] Reference
"Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [Study of a Woman] Reference
“Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [Study of a Woman] Reference
Was this a subterfuge -- a means to an acquaintance?. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
The thing is, Patrick strips away the need for subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
I feel complicit in this subterfuge by not challenging it. From Wordnik.com. [Story to Forget] Reference
What's happening instead is subterfuge and shady deals to rearm the region. From Wordnik.com. [Sneaking In The Scuds] Reference
The "Trippi" e-mail perhaps is a harbinger of Net-based subterfuge to come. From Wordnik.com. [GRINS AND GRENADES] Reference
Sternesque subterfuge of having to deliver manuscript to an insistent publisher. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
In these sad remembrances I sought a subterfuge behind which to hide in a false rest. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
There was no subterfuge for his conscience; now it was wide awake, stinging him like a serpent. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
His five brothers and sisters were all, in their different ways, involved in acts of subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis] Reference
At the CIA, the spooks had been unleashed to accomplish, by stealth and subterfuge, what the soldiers could not. From Wordnik.com. [How He'll Haunt Us] Reference
But had Ismail tipped his hand to me, he knew I would have refused to go, so he instead used subterfuge to get me there. From Wordnik.com. [Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins] Reference
He had been tricked into the meeting by his partner's duplicity, which itself was the direct result of the paper's subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [News of the World's entrapment of John Higgins besmirches journalism] Reference
The film he made was signicantly different from the script he'd submitted for approval -- a common subterfuge among filmmakers. From Wordnik.com. [Raise A Red Flag] Reference
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