Meanings of elaborate ruse in English

Because touching Hetherington's dead body was an elaborate ruse designed to-to- towhat,exactly

If it was a ruse, the whole confrontation had been an elaborate ruse.

God only knows this may all be part of some elaborate ruse, I suppose.

If there was such a person, if this whole thing was not an elaborate ruse.

It feels like he's playing a trick on us, masking his strength with an elaborate ruse.

The elaborate ruse was to flush out potential assassins in the wake of multiple death threats against Mr Babchenko's life.

So Vincent pays off a Valid for the Valid's urine, blood, saliva, and fingerprints, and begins his arduous, elaborate ruse.

"I'm sure this is all just an elaborate ruse to keep me traveling with you," he groused.

"If you like, you can pretend that I'm employing subversive tactics as part of a fiendishly elaborate ruse meant to manipulate you," Thomas said.