ruse
/ɹuz/ noun C2- An action intended to deceive; a trick. · Near-synonyms: ploy, stratagem, artifice
- Cunning, guile, trickery.
Plural ruses
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It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel.
It seemed hopeless to pursue the inquiry any farther, but it was clear that in spite of Holmes’s ruse we had no proof that Barrymore had not been in London all the time.
This posing at the piano and over the album was only a little ruse adopted by way of precaution.
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