Definition for Subterfuge:

• An artifice to escape; evasion.

Synonyms for Subterfuge:

• n.

  •
  • sleight,
  • honest,
  • means.
  •cheating (noun)
  • refuge,
  • plan,
  • sham,
  • cheat.
  •communication (noun)
  • blind.
  •cunning (noun)
  • wile.
  •deception (noun)
  • swindle,
  • flimflammery,
  • hoax,
  • bunco,
  • forgery,
  • humbug.
  •stratagem (noun)
  • tactics,
  • game,
  • trickery,
  • trick of the trade,
  • plot,
  • Trojan Horse,
  • contrivance,
  • wrinkle,
  • pitfall,
  • machination.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • shenanigan,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • setup,
  • jape,
  • lie,
  • prank,
  • con game,
  • sophistry,
  • caper,
  • flimflam,
  • scam.
  •
  • whitewash,
  • cover up,
  • camouflage,
  • snare,
  • gimmick,
  • stalking-horse,
  • smoke screen.
  •
  • fix.
  •Other relevant words:
  • intrigue,
  • attract,
  • net,
  • voidance,
  • get,
  • song and dance,
  • double-talk,
  • inconsistency,
  • Parrying,
  • pussyfooting,
  • Phantasm,
  • burial,
  • delusiveness,
  • procrastination,
  • semblance,
  • false move,
  • outlet,
  • transversal,
  • masking,
  • Defrauding,
  • gambit,
  • change,
  • invention,
  • Quillet,
  • paltering,
  • stonewalling,
  • mere words,
  • put on,
  • closeness,
  • Excuseless,
  • enmeshment,
  • darkening,
  • untruth,
  • discretion,
  • pretension,
  • mockery,
  • discreetness,
  • invisibility,
  • parry,
  • white lie,
  • secretion,
  • caviling,
  • kink,
  • recourse,
  • tactic,
  • ficelle,
  • burying,
  • recess,
  • deliver,
  • guise,
  • fallaciousness,
  • equivocation,
  • prevarication,
  • Obscurement,
  • grouchy,
  • hedge,
  • measure,
  • entrapment,
  • pose,
  • hugger mugger,
  • curve,
  • commence,
  • finesse,
  • circumvention,
  • contribute,
  • concealment,
  • catch,
  • coup,
  • hoodwinking,
  • paralogism,
  • secret place,
  • ambush,
  • sophism,
  • Elenchus,
  • Boggling,
  • dodging,
  • draw,
  • conspiracy,
  • Antilogy,
  • wheeze,
  • pretence,
  • weasel words,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • con,
  • befooling,
  • dupery,
  • screening,
  • makeshift,
  • self-deception,
  • come,
  • delineate,
  • alibi,
  • cop out,
  • ruffle,
  • misapply,
  • delay,
  • secrecy,
  • racket,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • rip off,
  • cunning,
  • hypocrisy,
  • act,
  • hideaway,
  • hiddenness,
  • hedging,
  • false show,
  • commit,
  • gyp,
  • Concealedness,
  • resource,
  • move,
  • pass,
  • grift,
  • evasiveness,
  • above,
  • shuffling,
  • run-around,
  • hiding,
  • elicit,
  • handle,
  • tergiversation,
  • color,
  • wishful thinking,
  • front,
  • snow job,
  • foot-dragging,
  • red herring,
  • espieglerie,
  • hairsplitting,
  • Kidding,
  • cheating,
  • lure,
  • resort,
  • bickering,
  • plea,
  • Covertness,
  • transverse,
  • Captiousness,
  • bilk,
  • Tricking,
  • crabbed,
  • ambiguity,
  • loophole,
  • apology,
  • Subreption,
  • Elench,
  • playing for time,
  • shifting,
  • way out,
  • retreat,
  • overreaching,
  • chouse,
  • capture,
  • gesture,
  • ruse de guerre,
  • means of escape,
  • stalling,
  • simulation,
  • imposture,
  • sleight of hand,
  • design,
  • wind-up,
  • Secretness,
  • tour de force,
  • secretiveness,
  • treachery,
  • fencing,
  • double cross,
  • solecism,
  • obstruct,
  • little game,
  • interment,
  • facade,
  • nitpicking,
  • veil,
  • mask,
  • cloak,
  • curve ball,
  • bag of tricks,
  • carry,
  • Fooling,
  • spoofing,
  • smokescreen,
  • Deceiving,
  • delusion,
  • cant,
  • hole,
  • jugglery,
  • duplicity,
  • convey,
  • sidestepping,
  • trickiness,
  • dirty deal,
  • make-believe,
  • illusion,
  • communicate,
  • vindication,
  • quibble,
  • victimization,
  • claptrap,
  • googly,
  • strategy,
  • Conning,
  • ensnarement,
  • juggle,
  • legerdemain,
  • quibbling,
  • corner,
  • fetch,
  • sidestep,
  • distraction,
  • collusion,
  • allegation,
  • Advocation,
  • vision,
  • nit-picking,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • hook,
  • escape,
  • art,
  • fond illusion,
  • covering up,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • show,
  • confidence trick,
  • poor excuse,
  • lying,
  • outwitting,
  • describe,
  • bend,
  • bosey,
  • obstructionism,
  • protestation,
  • depict,
  • gloss,
  • step,
  • expedient,
  • bring,
  • retrieve,
  • play-acting,
  • occultation,
  • joker,
  • Gloze,
  • develop,
  • quodlibet,
  • Obscuration,
  • clouding,
  • skulduggery,
  • covering,
  • screen,
  • guile,
  • avail,
  • crabby,
  • Fudging,
  • shuffle,
  • entanglement,
  • gamesmanship,
  • Bluffing,
  • grumpy,
  • locus standi,
  • bamboozlement,
  • Swindling,
  • varnish,
  • manoeuvre,
  • trepan,
  • mystification,
  • hallucination,
  • cover,
  • mirage,
  • Procrastinating,
  • fussy.

Paraphrases for Subterfuge:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    loophole.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pretext, excuse, pretense.

Antonyms for Subterfuge:

• n.

  • cheating
    sincerity, truthfulness, fairness, openness, frankness, reality, honesty.
  • Other antonyms:
    truth, guilelessness, artlessness, innocence, directness, simplicity, ingenuousness.

Hyponym for Subterfuge:

• n.

  • communication
    misrepresentation, deceit, deception.