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smokescreen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | smoke screen |
| Type of | screen |
smokescreen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | smoke screen |
| Type of | hiding, concealing, concealment |
requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures.
Examples of smokescreen
smokescreen
To suggest my article is an attack on journalists is something of a smokescreen.
From the guardian.co.uk
However, Eurosceptics accused Mr Hague of using the Coalition as a smokescreen.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
It's a smokescreen designed to get you talking about him, not his team's offense.
From the dailyherald.com
In the majority of cases, though, camera makers are simply raising a smokescreen.
From the techcrunch.com
I really do think this is a Tory smokescreen to keep our focus off the economy.
From the theargus.co.uk
Mr Swan said the Queensland audit was a smokescreen to break election promises.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
This has provided a convenient smokescreen against a more rational investigation.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Behind the smokescreen, Mr Berlusconi is gathering the fruits of office again.
From the economist.com
It's ideology as a smokescreen, deployed to mask an intrinsic lack of decency.
From the theatlantic.com
- Smoke screen: (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements
- Smoke screen: an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure; "requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures"
- A smoke screen is smoke released to mask the movement or location of military units such as infantry, tanks, aircraft or ships.
- Smokescreen is a 1964 British crime thriller, written and directed by Jim O'Connolly, and starring Peter Vaughan.
- 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. ...
- Smokescreen is the name of several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes.
- Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle; Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract
- (Smokescreens) Vendor named category of control system specifications written by users & system consultants which describe in disguise a one-and-only vendor-specific item in great detail but ask several vendors for quotations (many are called but only one can be chosen); see also Dowatchados, ...
- That which is used to obscure.
