We have no meanings for "mere ruse" in our records yet.
1 Of course the reported illness was a mere ruse to lull his apprehensions.
2 Still it might have succeeded as a mere ruse of war.
3 Had he not been asleep, at all-thesnoring a mere ruse ?
4 The man's desertion of his family was a mere ruse .
5 The Russians hold that this is a mere ruse for proliferating atomic weapons in Europe.
6 This was a mere ruse , to trick the officers into a consent for his removal.
7 This, however, is a mere ruse to gain time.
8 It may be, too, that it is a mere ruse to discover if I be in the neighborhood.
9 It may be, too, that it is a mere ruse to discover if I be in the neighbourhood.
10 Afterwards Winter and Holden confessed that they thought the pretence of injecting snake poison was a mere ruse to gain time.
11 A ruse- amereruse to conceal his passion.
12 "It is a mere ruse , " observed the wise Reis-Effendi.
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