Crossword clues for ruse
ruse
- Clever tactic
- Sleight of hand
- Deceptive scheme
- Bit of deception
- Deceptive maneuver
- Deceptive action
- Tricky tactic
- Deceptive plan
- Bit of deceit
- Sneaky trick
- Slick trick
- Underhanded plan
- Sneaky plan
- Crafty stratagem
- Sneaky maneuver
- Misleading trick
- Devious tactic
- Deceptive trick
- Artful move
- Sneaky stratagem
- Sly stratagem
- Misleading maneuver
- Cunning plan
- Crafty move
- Trojan Horse, for one
- Sneaky move
- Scammer's ploy
- Devious scheme
- Crafty scheme
- Clever ploy
- Bit of beguilement
- Artful stratagem
- Wily trick
- Tricky play
- Tricky plan
- Sly strategy
- It's a trick
- Fraudulent activity
- Devious ploy
- Con man's device
- Bit of sneakiness
- Wily subterfuge
- Underhand ploy
- Trojan horse, infamously
- Tricky pretense
- Tricky play, e.g
- Trickster's tactic
- Sneaky ploy
- Slick move
- Slick device
- One way to get you
- Misleading tactic
- Fiendish plan, perhaps
- Crafty trick
- Crafty ploy
- Clever scheme
- Bit of slyness
- Bit of skulduggery
- Bit of misdirection
- Bit of craft
- Chicanery
- Dodge
- Misleading move
- Stratagem
- Sneaky scheme
- Subterfuge
- Trojan horse, for example
- Tricky maneuver
- Sly tactic
- Con job
- Ploy
- Jugglery
- Feint
- Bit of chicanery
- Artifice
- Beguilement
- Diversionary tactic
- Deceit
- Shenanigan
- Trojan Horse, e.g.
- Machination
- Bait-and-switch, e.g.
- Put-up job
- Deception
- Fake-out
- Flimflam
- Part of the planning for many a surprise birthday party
- 34-Across, e.g.
- Setup for a surprise party
- Bit of flimflam
- Device for deceiving
- Wile
- Smoke screen
- A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
- Artful dodge
- Action to mislead
- Red herring
- Clever trick
- The Trojan horse, e.g.
- Dirty trick
- Strategem
- Pretext
- Cunning scheme
- Odoriferous plant secures second trick
- Stratagem, trick
- Scheme Aussie natives announced
- Scam about to take us in
- Republican to employ stratagem
- Heard about jumper’s trick
- Deceptive tactic
- Trick queen over exploit
- Trick Australian natives, do you say?
- Deceptive ploy
- Bit of subterfuge
- Trojan Horse, e.g
- Sly trick
- Bit of trickery
- Sneaky tactic
- Confidence trick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruse \Ruse\, n. [F., fr. OF. re["u]ser, rehuser, to turn aside, to shuffle, retreat, fr. L. recusare to refuse; pref. re- again + causa cause. See Cause, and cf. Recusant.] An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Ruse de guerre[F.], a stratagem of war.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "dodging movements of a hunted animal;" 1620s, "a trick," from Old French ruse, reuse "diversion, switch in flight; trick, jest" (14c.), back-formed noun from reuser "to dodge, repel, retreat; deceive, cheat," from Latin recusare "deny, reject, oppose," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + causari "plead as a reason, object, allege," from causa "reason, cause" (see cause (n.)). It also has been proposed that the French word may be from Latin rursus "backwards," or a Vulgar Latin form of refusare. Johnson calls it, "A French word neither elegant nor necessary." The verb ruse was used in Middle English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a trick 2 guile
WordNet
n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) [syn: artifice]
Wikipedia
Ruše (; ) is a small town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Ruše and lies on the right bank of the Drava River west of Maribor. The area was part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.
A ruse is a deception, an action or plan which is intended to deceive someone, for example a ruse of war.
Ruse is a comic book featuring detectives Simon Archard and Emma Bishop. Originally published by CrossGen, it was revived in 2011 by Marvel Comics as part of its acquisition of CrossGen titles.
Ruse is an autobiographical account written by investigative journalist and FBI counterintelligence operative, Robert Eringer. Ruse covers the author's covert interactions with CIA defector, Edward Lee Howard in the late years of his life. The primary objective is to convince Howard to travel outside of Russia, to a jurisdiction where he could be arrested and extradited. Eringer's cover as a literary agent also allows him to gain the confidence of the 23 year fugitive, Unicorn Killer (Ira Einhorn). Frustrated with extradition negotiations, the FBI approved Eringer's plan to keep tabs on Einhorn in case that he would attempt to flee from France during extradition negotiations. Activities described in Ruse also expose Cuban intelligence (DGI) operatives in Washington D.C., and preemptively exposed a Cuban plot to disenfranchise Senator Bob Menendez. When allegations were made against the Senator in 2012, a short passage from Ruse, reported in The Record in 2008, caused Alex Seitz-Wald ( Salon) to Tweet his theory, and the Daily Caller ultimately published information disproving the allegations in 2013.
Usage examples of "ruse".
Ready to spring the final ruse, Alec cast a yearning look toward the keep and sighed deeply.
Sometimes the vanquished in battle resort to a curious ruse for the purpose of avenging themselves on the victors by means of a ghost.
The barge and the false rendezvous was the ruse by which we secured the Terran Colonel Bogey fur the sport.
Ce sont de grands enfants qui connaissent les ruses des poissons et ne connaissent point celles des hommes.
Desaguliers studied an individual in London named Thomas Topham, who used no ruse in his feats and was not the skilful equilibrist that the German Samson was, his performances being merely the results of abnormal physical force.
The entire Targan revolution was hatched as a ruse to bait Staffa into range so that Bruen and this Magister Hyde could use Arta Fera to assassinate the Lord Commander?
It was called milk and kept in precious silver vessels called honeypots, yet one more ruse to confound male things.
Roland Ballantyne, the founder and commanding colonel 428 of the Scouts, had tried every ruse to inveigle Sean in as his second-in-command - so far without success.
Reward for your brav- ery, and your nacky ruse to sink or cripple that privateer.
In conclusion, we believe that gunmen employed by Mickey Cohen perpetrated the Nite Owl Massacre, a kill-six-to-get-one ruse undertaken out of his hatred for Duke Cathcart.
In all likelihood, Nunes only meant to add verisimilitude to his ruse, but it was also possible that Parido might want to see Miguel brought before the board.
At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.
He knew that the murder monster would quickly discover the ruse by which he had substituted Linky Teagle for himself in the sack.
While we waited for the finding and unharbouring of the hart, while I held myself in readiness for the chase and listened for the baying of the scent, while we followed the ruses and doublings of the quarry as he ran back on his own tracks to strengthen the scent then bounded sideways to confuse the hounds or entered and left the streamlets that run through the woods so as to break his traces, while I galloped with the others and followed the sound of the horn and shouted with all the power of my lungs and ducked the low branches, amidst all this hullabaloo and headlong career, I still drifted on the dark lake, still heard the words of love and promise she had given me, still felt the ring where it lay threaded against my breastbone.
The ruse of stepping foxlike along the barkless logs, balancing, jumping out and landing on another log, made the boys yip with pleasure.