| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end: artifice, deception, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick. Informal : shenanigan, take-in. See HONEST, MEANS. | | VERB: | To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work. Also used with away: dawdle (away), fiddle away, idle (away), kill1, trifle away, waste, while (away). See INDUSTRIOUS.
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