What's the difference between duse and ruse?

Duse


Definition:

  • (n.) A demon or spirit. See Deuce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She grew up expecting a career in regional theatre, spent eight years at college studying the stage – only leaving at the age of 26 – named her dog after 19th-century Italian actor Eleanora Duse, and once said her father's profession meant that, when it came to the theatre, she "was like a homing pigeon.
  • (2) For them, Guillem descends straight from the stage divinities of the 19th century, "sacred monsters" such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse, after whom her latest project is named.
  • (3) B cell line GM 2606 (Akeson, A. L., D. A. Wiginton, M. R. Dusing, J. C. States, and J. J. Hutton.

Ruse


Definition:

  • (n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
  • (2) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
  • (3) It is a ruse in order to get a second opinion … It is simply going nowhere.
  • (4) The ruse provoked a response from MLSsoccer.com , for whom Andy Edwards wrote: Whatever your feelings on USA Soccer Guy, your feelings toward the SFA should go something like this: We're sorry we beat you 5-1 last year , and we're also sorry that you're still bitter about it.
  • (5) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients.
  • (6) One ruse is to promise marriage to wealthy foreigners.
  • (7) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
  • (8) To do so, right under the noses of an often violent state apparatus, they will adopt all sorts of ruses to keep their identity secret or at least partly masked.
  • (9) The film is poignant because the man is an undercover FBI agent posing as a government official who has lured Chapman to the meeting under the ruse of getting her to pass a fake passport to another "illegal" – a spy who has embedded themselves in America society, outside the protection of the Russian embassy.
  • (10) Elections are due in 2015, but no one expects anything other than the same old ruses from Lukashenko.
  • (11) A new report by the International Crisis Group, a respected thinktank, found that Syrian rebel groups were playing up their Islamist credentials by growing Salafi-type beards, for example, as a ruse to secure arms from these conservative Gulf-based donors.
  • (12) This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
  • (13) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients, including on the terrace.
  • (14) In this view, expression of concern for human rights is not just hypocritical but a ruse.
  • (15) When Seigner's Wanda forces Almaric's Thomas to wear women's clothes at the end of Venus in Fur , it is hard not to wonder if this is another example of both disguised memoirs and masochistic ruse.
  • (16) But they have got into general circulation by an elaborate ruse.
  • (17) Sometimes the ruse plays upon a person's desire to make a profit from an outlandish investment proposal.
  • (18) To "fix" the region's unfixable Holocaust history, an array of cunning ruses was brought into play.
  • (19) But the government has adopted a culture of secrecy, as well as legal and parliamentary ruses, to hide from the public the extent that the NHS is being put up for sale to private healthcare companies.
  • (20) They see it as a Remainer ruse to stay in the EU in all but name.

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