Subterfuge vs Shuffling - What's the difference?
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(countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics.
* 2010 , (Clare Vanderpool), (Moon Over Manifest)
*{{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)
(uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
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
trickery
* Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
* Shakespeare
evasive
* T. Burnet
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
English
(wikipedia subterfuge)Noun
- Overt subterfuge in a region nearly caused a minor accident.
- How’s the spy hunt going? Uncovered any subterfuge ?
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.}}
shuffling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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)- A shuffling nag.
- a shuffling excuse