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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smokescreen
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 casual but effective smokescreen, neatly blurring our back trail.
▪ Britain's nuclear power programme began with a lie: it was a smokescreen for the nuclear weapons programme.
▪ He was just firing a smokescreen of emotive words and phrases.
▪ The legal advice is part of a smokescreen being put up to hide its intentions and its concern.
▪ The Strasbourg smokescreen will be different.
▪ Unconsciously they create a smokescreen of confusion as a defence against the fear of being taken over.
▪ Why did he have to be manipulated to admit what he genuinely believed, regardless of the political smokescreens.
Wiktionary
smokescreen

n. 1 Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle. 2 Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.

WordNet
smokescreen

  1. n. (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements [syn: smoke screen]

  2. 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]

Wikipedia
Smokescreen

Smokescreen may refer to:

  • Smoke screen, a weapons countermeasure
  • Smokescreen (Transformers), a Transformers character
  • Security smoke, generated smoke specifically used as a security measure
  • Smokescreen (film), a 1964 British film
  • Palais Royale (film), a 1988 Canadian film released under the alternate titles Smokescreen or Smoke Screen
  • Smokescreen (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comics supervillain
  • Operation Smokescreen, a US interagency counterterrorist operation from 1995 to 2002 to disrupt fundraising by Hezbollah
  • The Smoke Screen (Yes, Prime Minister), a 1986 episode of Yes, Prime Minister
Smokescreen (Marvel Comics)

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 readers of the dangers of smoking. He momentarily captures Storm then is captured by Spider-Man with the assistance of Power Man who then hand him over into police custody.

Smokescreen (film)

Smokescreen is a 1964 British crime thriller, written and directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Peter Vaughan.

Smokescreen (Transformers)

Smokescreen is the name of several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes.

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.