Their fast talking is a smokescreen for their con artistry.
Source: tatoeba (12849663)
Smokescreen
//ˈsmoʊkˌskɹin//
Synonyms for "smokescreen" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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8 entriesTranslations
73 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سِتَار دُخَانِيّ noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Armenian
2 entries- ծխածածկույթ noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- ծխածածկույթ noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tüstü pərdəsi noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Belarusian
2 entries- дымава́я заве́са noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- дымава́я засло́на noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ди́мна заве́са noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 煙幕 /烟幕 noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- 煙氣幕 /烟气幕 noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Czech
1 entries- kouřová clona noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Danish
1 entries- røgslør noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Dutch
1 entries- rookgordijn noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Estonian
1 entries- suitsukate noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Finnish
2 entries- savuverho noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- savuverho noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
French
3 entries- rideau de fumée noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- écran de fumée noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- écran de fumée noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Galician
2 entries- cortina de fume noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- cortina de fume noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
German
4 entries- Ablenkung noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- Ablenkungsmanöver noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- Deckmantel noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- Deckmantel noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Hungarian
4 entries- elterelés noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- félrevezetés noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- ködfüggöny noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- ködösítés noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Irish
1 entries- brat deataigh noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Italian
1 entries- cortina fumogena noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Japanese
2 entries- 煙幕 noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- 煙幕 noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Korean
2 entries- 연막 noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- 연막 noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Latvian
2 entries- aizsegs noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- dūmu aizsegs noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Lithuanian
1 entries- dūmų uždanga noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Macedonian
1 entries- димна завеса noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- røykskjerm noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Polish
2 entries- zasłona dymna noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- zasłona dymna noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Portuguese
4 entries- cortina de fumaça noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- cortina de fumaça noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- cortina de fumo noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- cortina de fumo noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Russian
1 entries- дымова́я заве́са noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dimna zavesa noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- dimna zavjesa noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- димна завеса noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- димна завјеса noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Slovak
1 entries- dymová clona noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Slovene
1 entries- dimna zavesa noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Spanish
2 entries- cortina de humo noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- cortina de humo noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Swedish
4 entries- dimridå noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- dimridå noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
- rökridå noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- rökridå noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Turkish
2 entries- sis perdesi noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- sis perdesi noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Ukrainian
2 entries- димова́ заві́са noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- димова́ засло́на noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hoả mù noun (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover)
- hoả mù noun (anything used (metaphorically) to conceal or distract)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
All his blathering about social issues is just a smokescreen to keep people from talking about his economic policy.
Source: tatoeba (13627787)
Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.
Source: wiktionary
C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.