Walter Murch

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

American Editor

Wallace Shawn

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

American Actor

Barton Gellman

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

American Journalist

Lamar Alexander

If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

American Politician

Grover Cleveland

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

American President

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Subterfuge involves concealing real goals with something less noticeable or acceptable.

Hidden Motives

Subterfuge usually implies dishonesty and isn't seen as a positive action.

Negative Connotation

Subterfuge is often used to describe sneaky or shady ways of doing things.

Underhanded Methods

Subterfuge often involves careful planning rather than impulsive lies.

Strategic Usage

Subterfuge is used when direct methods are not favorable or possible.

Achieving Goals

Using subterfuge may be seen differently across cultures; some may find it more acceptable.

Cultural Perceptions

Subterfuge helps individuals or entities avoid attention or trouble.

Escaping Detection

Subterfuge requires creativity and intelligence to be effective.

Clever Ploys

In books and movies, subterfuge is a common plot mechanism to add suspense.

Plot and Fiction

 As their top spy, your skills range from infiltration and subterfuge, to safecracking and reading faces for signs of deception. You’ve tracked the captors to where they’re holding the chef prisoner. From your hiding spot, you can see him on the other side of the glass,

Can you solve the secret...

 for dealing with drug abuse goes not to helping agencies but those that punish, and you'll find the good old U.S. of A. Why did we do this? Some people, especially in Latin America, think it's not really about drugs. It's just a subterfuge for advancing