noun
1. A deceptive trick to conceal a perceived truth.
As Admiral Richard E Byrd, Floyd Bennet** and Archie Belaney*** have proven, a clever subterfuge is one way of making history.
Synonyms: aspersion, calumniation, calumny, chicanery, deciet, deception, defamation, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraud, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, lie, mendancity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, revilement, slander, sweet little lies, tale, tall tale, white lie, whopper.
* When I was a kid, I loved mispronouncing this word as superfudge.****
** Historians have good reason to suspect that Byrd and Bennet lied about flying over the North Pole in 1927.
*** Archie Belaney is the infamous Grey Owl.
**** Superfudge is not the correct pronounciation of this word!
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