Smokescreen (Noun)
Meaning 1
(military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The army created a smokescreen to conceal their troops as they retreated from the battlefield.
- During the surprise attack, the enemy released a smokescreen to confuse and disorient the opposing forces.
- The commander ordered the deployment of a smokescreen to mask the movement of the armored vehicles.
- The soldiers lit smoke bombs to create a smokescreen and facilitate their escape from the enemy's line of fire.
- The smokescreen generated by the burning vehicles allowed the soldiers to evacuate the wounded without being targeted.
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Meaning 2
An action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure; "requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The company's charity work was a smokescreen for its corrupt business practices and money laundering operations.
- Requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures in the investigation so far.
- Their proposals to protect the environment are a smokescreen and what they're actually planning will increase pollution and cause irreversible damage.
- Critics say that these stricter traffic rules are merely a smokescreen and their primary purpose is revenue collection.
- Promising change, this presidential candidate delivered yet another campaign of smoke and mirrors - campaign talk just became the usual smokescreen masking corrupt ideas of grabbing ultimate authority over media for eventual closure on speaking critically on office abuses, often merely dressed down - put softly now labelled freely independent alternative style democracy online networks platforms after truth also removed alongside from voice 'even called main- having set clear clear track not recorded what never any government asked made promises held really having freedom accountability voters transparency behind today since way or most want freely like make most is them getting along truth would accountability there again promised giving none by set make over had freely voting making as little before last elections making history breaking bad ones about kept is get time around of.'