(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.
Trickery
Definition:
(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
(2) 4.13am GMT 90 mins +3 Neagle tries a little trickery wide right, trying to end his interest in this series with a decisive touch, but his short through ball is overhit.
(3) This parliamentary trickery can be traced to another controversial Westminster moment: the government's determination to introduce 42-day detention.
(4) Md Shamsuddoha, a campaigner with Justice and Equity Bangladesh, said: "Channelling climate funds through the World Bank is a trickery of the British government to weaken the argument for channelling funds through the United Nations or national funds.
(5) Four completions, one spiked football, and then, on first-and-goal at the one-yard line, a wonderful piece of trickery, as he gestured furiously at his team-mates to run to the line for a spike play, but instead leaped over the line for a touchdown.
(6) Holding hands prevents participants from disrupting the trickery.
(7) 2.50am GMT 10 mins First look at Rivero trying a little trickery by the touchline, and then getting caught by Traore as he tries another little flick forward.
(8) But also increasingly we are seeing people with learning disabilities becoming targeted for forced marriage through coercion or trickery in order to extract their finances or accommodation or even for passports or visas.” Forced marriage is a deeply malign cultural practice – but it’s not the only one | Deborah Orr Read more Respond Chief Executive Noelle Blackman worries that the nuance of the cases they see is not allowed for by the new legislation: “The new Health and Care act promotes advocacy for people with learning disabilities, but we are concerned that this is likely to come from generic advocacy agencies without the specialised knowledge that would be needed.” Let’s hope, as Khan does, that this first case to be prosecuted, “will send out a very strong message”.
(9) He added of his rival’s campaign: “They have a long record they’ve earned in South Carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning the integrity of whoever their opponent is to distract the attention.
(10) It is pushing the campaign off the front of the news locally.” The election has been a long, brutal process and people are much more interested in the World Series John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University Grabowski cautioned against notions of baseball as morally pure escapism, noting the sport’s own history of “chicanery and trickery”, but added: “Nonetheless it’s linked to what America is supposed to be about – the field of dreams.
(11) Stoke were tormented, unable to match his acceleration and bewitched by his trickery.
(12) It's thinking not dissimilar to one of those terrifying internet male pickup artists – all buzzwords and trickery, although I've never known any of them to follow up their attempts to seduce with a bastardised version of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech ("I want to see a Britain where no matter where you come from, what god you worship, the colour of your skin, what community you belong to, you can get to the top in television, the judiciary, armed services, politics, newspapers.")
(13) Lamela scored three goals in the first half – extending his fine record in this competition – and Tom Carroll’s dogged trickery added a fourth late on‚ his first for the club.
(14) The embarrassed hospital has condemned the hoax as "pretty deplorable" and "journalistic trickery".
(15) O'Neill, who continues to pursue the Wolves centre-forward Steven Fletcher but has accepted that the midfielder or left back Kieran Richardson remains determined to leave the Stadium of Light, is desperate to add "pace and trickery" to his team along with a striker and a left-back.
(16) I can easily generate a Man City fan's revulsion about Sir Alex Ferguson's surly shtick, strategic trickery, his bloody, battering success.
(17) The deja vu will stab at Atlético when they also reflect on Griezmann firing a penalty against the crossbar early in a second half when Yannick Carrasco changed the match with his pace, trickery and directness.
(18) 2.57am GMT 45 mins +2 Luis Gil shows a little trickery in the box down the right again, but Ricketts dives on his ball in towards the near post.
(19) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.
(20) True, there was a big warning flashed up over the spending cuts to come, but in general the IFS did not find much evidence of trickery.