subterfuge
I
noun
artifice, camouflage, chicane, chicanery, concealment, counterfeit, deception, deverticulum, device, dodge, duplicity, elusion, evasion, excuse, fabrication, falsehood, fib, fiction, finesse, forgery, guise, imposture, jugglery, latebra, lie, loophole, machination, maneuver, mask, plan, pretense, pretext, prevarication, ruse, sham, shift, smoke screen, sophistry, strategem, subtlety, trick, untruth
II
index
artifice, bad faith, color (deceptive appearance), concealment, contrivance, cover (pretext), deception, evasion, excuse, expedient, false pretense, hoax, imposture, machination, maneuver (trick), pretense (pretext), pretext, ruse, scheme, stratagem
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006