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词汇 ruse
释义 ruse
noun[ C ]
uk /ruːz/ us /ruːz/
a trick intended to deceive someone: 诡计;计策
It was just a ruse to distract her while his partner took the money.这不过是一个转移她注意力的伎俩,这样他的同伙就可以把钱拿走。
Synonym
artificeformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
feint
flannel
funny business
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
gyp
prankishly
prankster
pretext
pretextual
pull

ruse | American Dictionary


ruse
noun[ C ]
us/ruz/
a trick intended to deceive someone:
You didn’t fall for my ruse.

Examples of ruse


ruse
Rather than revise the ruse of cooperation that he devised to protect his political domain, he blamed corrupted evidence.
Efforts made at supposed conciliation were a ruse.
On this gloomy account liberalism is a ruse, the story the ruling classes tell themselves and their subjects.
A ruse was to cheat at the medical by sending a person who looked healthy, or by manipulating blood pressure.
A denial of the clock, of being professionally on-time or amateurishly late, is a disingenuous ruse.
Few if any of his words can be taken at face value, in light of the ruse he is perpetrating, but even if insincere they are cutting.
Bluebeard too, it will be remembered, absents himself from home on a business trip as a ruse to test his prospective or newly-wedded wife.
We have had a series of fertile little ruses—a sort of "petite astuce"—to make the settlement work.
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Those tears are a ruse: they do not care one jot about means-testing and that has been shown over many years.
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Therefore, he now stands exposed, caught out in a cheap and contemptible ruse.
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Both sides have employed decoys and clever ruses either to obtain evidence or to conceal it, as the case may be.
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And that was done by means of an immense ruse.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We must never be taken in by that ruse.
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If he is not, we shall know that it was all a ruse.
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This is not a ruse to try to get over-recruiting.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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