subterfuge

You did not need to use subterfuge to deal with me.

There's not much we can do in terms of subterfuge.

Yet we know that some kind of subterfuge is going on.

If she had a chance at subterfuge, this would be the place.

Getting out of her class would require some significant subterfuge.

"But without all the subterfuge allowed by using it here."

My subterfuge seemed to put him in a better mood.

Hell, she'd never been good at any kind of subterfuge.

He'd seen right through her little subterfuge in an instant.

The subterfuge used by the raiders had worked on many another world.

But, they'd seemed more amused by the subterfuge than anything else.

They could use that as subterfuge to get to the guy because of other conduct.

The situation seemed to call for subterfuge, and I've always been fairly good at that.

The band were later told about the piece of subterfuge at a party.

I can think of no other sensible reason for the subterfuge.

What if the visit to her father was merely a subterfuge?

They rang out clearly with no kind of subterfuge about them.

Whether this was legitimate business or subterfuge did not matter.

But by the same token there could be no question of subterfuge.

The woman is playing hard to get as part of an elaborate subterfuge.

It also brought into focus much of the subterfuge in the movies that has gone before.

If they'd read the man correctly, there would be no such subterfuge here.

Or is this just a subterfuge so you can see me naked again?

Somehow, the bit of subterfuge made a good wine seem even better.

I'm sorry to have had to arrange to see you through subterfuge.