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subterfuge
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synonyms: machination, Machiavellian ???
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Definition:some deceptive ploy used achieve one's goals
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She attempted by a subterfuge, if not to eliminate altogether their commercial banality,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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Turn to the paper. No, no, no my friend; not to the top of the column; you know better than that; to the bottom, to the bottom." (We all began to think Mr. Wopsle full of subterfuge.)
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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