ruse
I
noun
art, artifice, bait, blind, camouflage, cheat, chicane, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, craft, crafty device, deceit, deception, decoy, delusion, design, disguise, dodge, dolus, duplicity, evasion, feint, fetch, finesse, flimflam, fraud, guile, hoax, humbug, imposture, jugglery, machination, maneuver, mask, masquerade, plot, pretext, scheme, sham, sharp practice, shift, snare, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wile
II
index
artifice, bunko, canard, deception, device (contrivance), evasion, expedient, fake, false pretense, fraud, hoax, imposture, machination, maneuver (trick), plot (secret plan), ploy, pretense (pretext), pretext, stratagem, subterfuge
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006