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Fume over test for suitability — it’s designed to mislead
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smokescreen
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The administration's emphasis on the drop in inflation is just a smokescreen to divert attention from rising unemployment. ▪ The rumors were a smokescreen for their own illegal activities. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All a ...
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Smokescreen is a fictional character that appeared in comic books published by Marvel Comics . A criminal looking to take over the illegal gambling business. He appears in the public service comic Spider-Man Storm and Power Man Battle Smokescreen to aware ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements [syn: smoke screen ] an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure; "requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures" [syn: smoke screen ...
Usage examples of smokescreen.
Shoemaker, hasn't it occurred to you that a political enemy may be using the Carding case as a smokescreen?
For years, especially recently, in modern times, he had relied on humans like Bob to provide a smokescreen for him, concealing him from suspicious eyes and coping with the intricacies of the modern world for him.
Bights has been a smokescreen to obscure everything from de facto segregation to outmoded abortion statutes.
RFK: The concept of States Bights has been a smokescreen to obscure everything from de facto segregation to outmoded abortion statutes.
Depending on the mood of the American sergeant commanding the smoke-generating vehicle, the smokescreen was used to block the Germans' view or actually blow right across the German reconnaissance vehicle.
It is going on behind the smokescreen of a world war, in a rogue nation cut off from civilized society.
Stretching away from the lurid glow immediately below the flyer, two streaks of whiteness flickered eerily where recorded Taloid images were being projected onto internally illuminated smokescreens from lanterns concealed several hours earlier on the rock-strewn slopes overlooking the obvious route through the valley.