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Subterfuge vs Shuffling - What's the difference?

subterfuge | shuffling | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between subterfuge and shuffling

is that subterfuge is an indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics while shuffling is the act or motion of one who shuffles.

As a verb shuffling is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective shuffling is

moving with a dragging, scraping step.

subterfuge

Noun

  • (countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics.
  • Overt subterfuge in a region nearly caused a minor accident.
  • * 2010 , (Clare Vanderpool), (Moon Over Manifest)
  • How’s the spy hunt going? Uncovered any subterfuge ?
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge —a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
  • (uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
  • shuffling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or motion of one who shuffles.
  • The noise created by something moving about.
  • * 2011 , John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
  • He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings , comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room
  • trickery
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
  • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings , and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A shuffling nag.
  • evasive
  • * T. Burnet
  • a shuffling excuse