(UK also false colours [ plural ]); (US also false colors [ plural ])
He ran for office under a false flag of neutrality and reconciliation.
- They attacked and killed 120 people under a false flag of truce.
- They aim to discredit the movement with tactics such as false flags and agents provocateurs.
- Some of these bombings appear to have been false flag attacks, done in an attempt to polarize opinion.
- They had their lips pumped up, their bodies liposuctioned, and fake hair glued on, all under the false flag of female empowerment.
- advance guard
- aggressor
- ambush
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- besiege
- blitz
- cyberbullying
- cyberwarfare
- declare war on someone/something
- foray
- full-frontal assault
- going-over
- hit and run
- kamikaze
- post-conquest
- pre-emption
- privateer
- raid
- reconquer
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