Synonyms:
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- alibi,
- apology,
- apply to,
- assume,
- be the goat,
- becloud,
- befog,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- bluff,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- cope,
- counterfeit,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cowl,
- curtain,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distract attention from,
- eclipse,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- excuse,
- facade,
- fake,
- feign,
- feint,
- film,
- four-flush,
- front,
- front for,
- gammon,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- handle,
- hide,
- hood,
- keep under cover,
- lame excuse,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- let on,
- let on like,
- locus standi,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- mantle,
- mask,
- muffle,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- ostensible motive,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- poor excuse,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- profess,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put on,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- screen,
- scum,
- semblance,
- shade,
- sham,
- shield,
- show,
- shroud,
- simulate,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- spread over,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash