All ruse synonyms

noun ruse

• contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
• evasion — The action of evading something.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• big stick — force or the threat of using force
• gimmick — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
• covin — a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• masquerade — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
• cunningness — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
• curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
• disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
• intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
• doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• kicker — a person or thing that kicks.
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• demarche — move, step, or manoeuvre, esp in diplomatic affairs
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
• jiving — swing music or early jazz.
• noose — a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• finesse — extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
• elusion — The act of eluding.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• machination — an act or instance of machinating.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• jig — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
• frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
• quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
• wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• wiliness — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.