smokescreen
IPA: smˈoʊkskrin
noun
- Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
- (figuratively) Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
smoke screen
IPA: smˈoʊkskrˈin
noun
- Alternative form of smokescreen [Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.]
smoke-screen
IPA: smˈoʊkskrin
noun
- Alternative form of smokescreen [Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.]
Examples of "smokescreen" in Sentences
- The rest of it is a smokescreen.
- The above is just a smokescreen.
- Another red herring smokescreen.
- She laid a smokescreen and fled.
- I repeat, it is not a smokescreen.
- Lance is in complete smokescreen mode.
- One related concept is the smokescreen.
- All the argumentation is just a smokescreen.
- But this is a smokescreen to pre empt debate.
- As stated above, the smokescreen is not impenetrable.
- The Republicans think their own pathetic smokescreen is too strong.
- And we think that it goes beyond just this so-called smokescreen of weapons of mass destruction.
- I agree its a lousy smokescreen, which is a pretty good indication as to what the courts would decide.
- I've got to think this is a McCain smokescreen to divert attention from the real issue here: how and why McCain selected this tyro.
- It all adds up to what Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet medical journal, calls a "smokescreen of device regulation which is putting patients at risk."
- Adobe boss: Jobs 'excuses are a "smokescreen" - Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday issued a rare public letter, explaining why his company wouldn't permit Flash on the iPhone or iPad.
- The smokescreen is the Fl/MI delegates. .which is nothing but noise in the background to justify her staying in the race when the real reason is because Obama is the 'black' candidate who cannot win the general.
- In a clarification issued here on Tuesday, in the context of what he described as the smokescreen being created over the issue by the Opposition with political motives, the Minister said TECOM made the demand only at the time when the lease deed had to be re-registered due to technical reasons.
Examples of "smoke-screen" in Sentences
- The so-called rehabilitation revolution is a smoke-screen for cuts and will not reduce reoffending.
- Cameron's strategy of using spending cuts as a smoke-screen for root-and-branch reform is ambitious.
- Further, the notion of "privatization", contracting out government responsibilites to private companies, is a smoke-screen.
- For the first few years of the New Labour government, the Left fought their fight for social justice behind the smoke-screen of Afro-Caribbean rights and grievances.
- Beyond their smoke-screen tactics of "leaking" information about the budget, Harper and Flaherty are likely to provide Big Business with some hefty corporate welfare.
- Infamously, in December 2006, the Iranian regime arranged an academic smoke-screen for deniers, organizing a conference "to review the global vision of the Holocaust."
- I feel sorry for you because you have either a closed mind, oreven sadder, an agenda to hide the truth of a situation, by creating a smoke-screen with dismissive comments and insults.
- We caught the bug in tracking one of the world's most captivating places, and we look forward to sharing our perspective with you here over coming months, while also defusing some of the smoke-screen hype.
- These gentlemen and ladies who have betrayed a public trust and who have sought to hide their failures behind a smoke-screen of "it is all the fault of these over-paid, greedy musicians" deserve forced retirement instanter.