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Subterfuge

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Subterfuge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/subterfuge.html. 1828.