0 a trick or a dishonest way of achieving something: --
It was clear that they must have obtained the information by subterfuge.
There must be a stop to all the dodging about behind the names of nominees and such subterfuges.
Needless to say, if the expert effect were simply a product of the ascetic impulse, it could be read and discounted as subterfuge or power play.
Lowther's version was that he was merely giving him scope to destroy them himself by his own legal subterfuges.
In all these circumstances, men sometimes discovered subterfuges in which opposition party agents helped disguise, in one way or another, the ticket they cast at the polls.
Hidden documents whose origins are obscure and whose discovery involves subterfuge grab the headlines.
However, this subterfuge is untenable.
By appropriating the music of his enemy, he cloaks his subterfuge in flattery.
Early reviews on the subject suggested that subterfuge and working around the patient was the only strategy.
