Related Words:
- subterfuge
collapse - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" related words >
- airtight secrecy,
- alibi,
- apology,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- burial,
- burying,
- calculated deception,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheat,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- circumvention,
- cloak,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- clouding,
- color,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- conning,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- craft,
- crypticness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- darkening,
- deceit,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- expedient,
- facade,
- fakement,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- fraud,
- front,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- gloss,
- googly,
- grift,
- guise,
- hairsplitting,
- hallucination,
- handle,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwinking,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- illusion,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- kidding,
- knavery,
- lame excuse,
- little game,
- locus standi,
- logic-chopping,
- maneuver,
- mask,
- masking,
- mirage,
- move,
- mystification,
- nit-picking,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostensible motive,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- phantasm,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- pussyfooting,
- put-off,
- putting away,
- putting on,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- screen,
- screening,
- scurvy trick,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- self-deception,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shift,
- shifting,
- show,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- smoke screen,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- uncommunicativeness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wile,
- willful misconception,
- wily device,
- wishful thinking
- secretion
collapse
- a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
- the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance related words >
- burial,
- burying,
- clouding,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- darkening,
- deception,
- discharge,
- discharging,
- drain,
- draining,
- dribbling,
- drip,
- dripping,
- drop,
- dropping,
- effusion,
- egestion,
- ejaculation,
- ejection,
- elimination,
- emanating,
- emanation,
- emission,
- escape,
- excreta,
- excreting,
- excretion,
- extravasate,
- extravasation,
- extrusion,
- exudation,
- flow,
- flux,
- generation,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- leak,
- leakage,
- leaking,
- masking,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- oozing,
- putting away,
- release,
- running,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secreting,
- seepage,
- seeping,
- subterfuge,
- transudate,
- transudation,
- trickle,
- trickling,
- uncommunicativeness
- balderdash,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- balls,
- baloney,
- bamboozle,
- bamboozlement,
- beat,
- befool,
- befooling,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- blague,
- bluffing,
- bosh,
- boutade,
- brainstorm,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunco,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burn,
- calculated deception,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- circumvention,
- claptrap,
- cock-and-bull story,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- conceit,
- conning,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crank,
- crap,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- crib,
- crotchet,
- deceit,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defraud,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- euchre,
- exaggeration,
- eyewash,
- fad,
- fairy tale,
- fake,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- finagle,
- fish story,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflammery,
- fob,
- fond illusion,
- fool,
- fool notion,
- fooling,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- gerrymandering,
- ghost story,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- gull,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- half-truth,
- hallucination,
- harebrained idea,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hoodwink,
- hoodwinking,
- hooey,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- humor,
- illicit business,
- illusion,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- jazz,
- jiggery-pokery,
- kidding,
- kink,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- maggot,
- megrim,
- mendacity,
- mirage,
- moonshine,
- mulct,
- notion,
- outwitting,
- overreach,
- overreaching,
- pack the deal,
- passing fancy,
- phantasm,
- pigeon,
- pious fiction,
- practice fraud upon,
- prevarication,
- putting on,
- quirk,
- racket,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- self-deception,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sham,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- slight stretching,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- story,
- subterfuge,
- swindle,
- swindling,
- take a dive,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- toy,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- vagary,
- victimization,
- victimize,
- vision,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- white lie,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- yarn
- fakery
collapse
- the act of faking (or the product of faking) related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copying,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- vapor
collapse
- a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance related words >
- Barnumize,
- London fog,
- London special,
- Old Faithful,
- air,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- autism,
- babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- blow,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- boast,
- boiling water,
- bombast,
- bounce,
- brag,
- brainchild,
- breathe out,
- bubble,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bully,
- chimera,
- cloud,
- daydream,
- deception,
- delirium,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- depression,
- dereism,
- distemper,
- draw the longbow,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- drisk,
- drivel,
- drizzling mist,
- drool,
- eidolon,
- emit,
- ether,
- evacuate,
- exhalation,
- exhale,
- exhaust,
- expire,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- film,
- flourish,
- fog,
- frost smoke,
- fume,
- gabble,
- gas,
- gasconade,
- gauze,
- geyser,
- gibber,
- gibble-gabble,
- give off,
- give out,
- give vent to,
- hallucination,
- haze,
- hector,
- hot spring,
- hot water,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- inflate,
- insubstantial image,
- intimidate,
- invention,
- jabber,
- lay it on,
- let out,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mist,
- morbidity,
- myth,
- nervousness,
- open the floodgates,
- open the sluices,
- out-herod Herod,
- pea soup,
- pea-soup fog,
- peasouper,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piffle,
- pile it on,
- pipe dream,
- pontificate,
- prate,
- prattle,
- puff,
- rage,
- rant,
- rattle,
- rave,
- reek,
- rheuminess,
- roister,
- rollick,
- romance,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- shadow,
- sick fancy,
- slang,
- smog,
- smoke,
- speak for Buncombe,
- spirit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- steam,
- storm,
- swagger,
- swashbuckle,
- talk big,
- talk highfalutin,
- talk nonsense,
- the pip,
- thermae,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thin air,
- throw off,
- trick,
- trip,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- vaunt,
- vision,
- waffle,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- wrong impression
- acting,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- attitudinarianism,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- incarnation,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- peacockery,
- peacockishness,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posture,
- posturing,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- autism
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- (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people related words >
- acquisitiveness,
- airy nothing,
- alienation,
- anesthesia,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bashfulness,
- blame-shifting,
- bubble,
- careerism,
- catatonia,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- chimera,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compensation,
- coolness,
- daydream,
- deadpan,
- deception,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- displacement,
- dissociability,
- dissociation,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamery,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dullness,
- ego trip,
- egotism,
- emotional deadness,
- emotional insulation,
- emotionlessness,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- false belief,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- immovability,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impracticality,
- incompatibility,
- individualism,
- inexcitability,
- insociability,
- interest,
- isolation,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mopishness,
- moroseness,
- narcissism,
- negativism,
- objectivity,
- obtuseness,
- overcompensation,
- passionlessness,
- personal aims,
- personal ambition,
- personal desires,
- personalism,
- pipe dream,
- play of fancy,
- poker face,
- possessiveness,
- privatism,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rationalization,
- remoteness,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-absorption,
- self-admiration,
- self-advancement,
- self-centeredness,
- self-consideration,
- self-containment,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- self-devotion,
- self-esteem,
- self-indulgence,
- self-interest,
- self-interestedness,
- self-jealousy,
- self-occupation,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-solicitude,
- self-sufficiency,
- selfishness,
- selfism,
- social incompatibility,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- straight face,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- sullenness,
- trick,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- uncompanionability,
- uncongeniality,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unfriendliness,
- ungeniality,
- ungregariousness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- unpassionateness,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsociability,
- unsociableness,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- utopianism,
- vapor,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- wrong impression
- hoax
collapse
- subject to a playful hoax or joke related words >
- bamboozle,
- befool,
- beguile,
- betray,
- bluff,
- cajole,
- cheat,
- cheat on,
- chicane,
- circumvent,
- clinquant,
- con,
- con game,
- conjure,
- counterfeit,
- cozen,
- deceive,
- deception,
- defraud,
- delude,
- diddle,
- double-cross,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- fake,
- fakement,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fool,
- forestall,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- game,
- gammon,
- get around,
- gull,
- gyp,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwink,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- imposture,
- juggle,
- junk,
- let down,
- mock,
- outmaneuver,
- outreach,
- outsmart,
- outwit,
- overreach,
- paste,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pinchbeck,
- play one false,
- put something over,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- rip-off,
- scam,
- sell,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- snow,
- snow job,
- spoof,
- string along,
- swindle,
- take in,
- tinsel,
- trick,
- two-time,
- whited sepulcher
- ruse
collapse
- a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) related words >
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jig,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- move,
- pass,
- plot,
- ploy,
- pretext,
- racket,
- red herring,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- wile,
- wily device
- dream
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- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
- someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene" related words >
- Miss America,
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- ace,
- ache,
- airy hope,
- airy nothing,
- aspiration,
- assume,
- autism,
- bad dream,
- bathing beauty,
- be absent,
- be afraid,
- beau ideal,
- beaut,
- beauty,
- beauty contest winner,
- beauty queen,
- believe,
- belle,
- bemusement,
- brown study,
- bubble,
- bunny,
- castle-building,
- charmer,
- chimera,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- conjure up,
- consider,
- corker,
- cover girl,
- crackerjack,
- crave,
- daisy,
- dandy,
- darb,
- daresay,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- dazzler,
- deception,
- deduce,
- deem,
- delirium tremens,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- depth of thought,
- dereism,
- dilly,
- divagate,
- divine,
- dream of,
- dream vision,
- dreaming,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- enchantress,
- engrossment,
- expect,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- feel,
- fit of abstraction,
- flight of fancy,
- freak out,
- gather,
- go woolgathering,
- golden dream,
- grant,
- great beauty,
- hallucinate,
- hallucination,
- hallucinosis,
- hanker,
- high goal,
- honey,
- humdinger,
- hunger,
- idealism,
- ideals,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagine,
- incubus,
- infer,
- killer-diller,
- knockout,
- lady fair,
- let,
- let be,
- lollapaloosa,
- looker,
- lulu,
- lust,
- mind-expansion,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- model,
- moon,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- nightmare,
- opine,
- paragon,
- peach,
- phantasm,
- pine,
- pinup,
- pinup girl,
- pip,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pippin,
- prefigure,
- preoccupation,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- provisionally accept,
- pussycat,
- quixotic ideal,
- rainbow,
- raving beauty,
- reaching high,
- reckon,
- reigning beauty,
- repute,
- reverie,
- say,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sex kitten,
- sigh,
- slick chick,
- speculation,
- stargaze,
- stargazing,
- stray,
- study,
- stunner,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- sweetheart,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- think,
- thirst,
- trance,
- trick,
- trip,
- tripping,
- understand,
- unreal hope,
- upward looking,
- utopia,
- vapor,
- vision,
- wander,
- whiz,
- woolgathering,
- wrong impression
- secrecy
collapse
- the trait of keeping things secret related words >
- Jim Crow,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- burial,
- burying,
- censorship,
- clandestineness,
- clouding,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- confidentiality,
- confidentially,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertly,
- covertness,
- darkening,
- deception,
- detachment,
- disappearance,
- furtively,
- furtiveness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- hush-hush,
- immateriality,
- imperceptibility,
- indiscernibility,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- masking,
- mysteriously,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- nonappearance,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- privacy,
- privately,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- putting away,
- quarantine,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- screening,
- seclusion,
- secretion,
- secretively,
- secretiveness,
- secretly,
- secretness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- silence,
- sneakily,
- splendid isolation,
- stealth,
- stealthily,
- subterfuge,
- suppression,
- surreptitiously,
- surreptitiousness,
- the invisible,
- the unseen,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unperceivability,
- unseeableness,
- unsubstantiality,
- viewlessness,
- withdrawal
- annular eclipse,
- blackout,
- blanketing,
- blocking,
- blotting out,
- burial,
- burying,
- cementwork,
- central eclipse,
- cloaking,
- clouding,
- coating,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- coverage,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- curtaining,
- darkening,
- deception,
- dematerialization,
- departure,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- dispersion,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- eclipse,
- eclipsing,
- elimination,
- envelopment,
- enwrapment,
- enwrapping,
- erasure,
- evanescence,
- evaporation,
- extinction,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- going,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- incrustation,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- laying on,
- lunar eclipse,
- mantling,
- masking,
- melting,
- mystification,
- obduction,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscuring,
- overlaying,
- overspreading,
- pargeting,
- partial eclipse,
- passing,
- plasterwork,
- putting away,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- sheathing,
- shielding,
- shrouding,
- solar eclipse,
- stuccowork,
- subterfuge,
- superimposition,
- superposition,
- total eclipse,
- uncommunicativeness,
- upholstering,
- upholstery,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- veiling,
- wipe,
- wrapping
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- contrast,
- cunning,
- deception,
- delusion,
- difference,
- discrepancy,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissembling,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulation,
- distinction,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- duplicity,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- makeup,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- meretriciousness,
- nonuniformity,
- ostentation,
- otherness,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- poor imitation,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- sophism
collapse
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone related words >
- apparent soundness,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- circularity,
- claptrap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- empty words,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- formal fallacy,
- hysteron proteron,
- illogicality,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- invalidity,
- irrationality,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misapplication,
- moonshine,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rationalization,
- solecism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- unsoundness,
- verbal fallacy,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- weak point
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mummery,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- projection,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- con,
- con game,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cute trick,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- defrauding,
- design,
- device,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feint,
- fetch,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- gyp,
- hanky-panky,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- misrepresentation,
- monkey business,
- move,
- overreaching,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scam,
- scheme,
- sell,
- sham,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- sleight,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- surreptitiousness,
- swindle,
- tactic,
- trapping,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhandedness,
- wile,
- wily device
- pretext
collapse
- something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- alibi,
- allege,
- alternative,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- avow,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- choice,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- cover story,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- loophole,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- plea,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- profess,
- protest too much,
- purport,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- red herring,
- representation,
- right,
- ruse,
- saving clause,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stated cause,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- underlying reason,
- varnish,
- veil,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- window dressing
- hypocrisy
collapse
- insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
- an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Pharisaism,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- chicanery,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- empty gesture,
- facade,
- fakery,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- furtiveness,
- glibness,
- goody-goodiness,
- guile,
- humbug,
- hypocriticalness,
- image,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- lying,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mendacity,
- mere show,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- pecksniffery,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quackery,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- shiftiness,
- show,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- stylishness,
- surreptitiousness,
- sweet talk,
- tokenism,
- treacherousness,
- two-facedness,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- underhandedness,
- unnaturalness
- Prospero,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airiness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- false air,
- false appearance,
- false front,
- false light,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- image,
- immateriality,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mannerism,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- prestidigitation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- unactuality,
- unnaturalness,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- decoy
collapse
- a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy related words >
- Dionaea,
- agent provocateur,
- allure,
- allurement,
- attract,
- attraction,
- bait,
- bait the hook,
- baited trap,
- birdlime,
- blandish,
- booby trap,
- by-bidder,
- cajole,
- capper,
- catch,
- catch out,
- charm,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- coax,
- come-on,
- come-on man,
- deadfall,
- deathtrap,
- deceive,
- deception,
- decoy duck,
- delude,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw on,
- drawcard,
- drawing,
- drawing card,
- endearment,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entice,
- enticement,
- entoil,
- entrap,
- enweb,
- firetrap,
- flirt,
- flirt with,
- flytrap,
- gin,
- give the come-on,
- ground bait,
- hook,
- hook in,
- induce,
- inducement,
- inveigle,
- inveiglement,
- lead on,
- lime,
- lure,
- mesh,
- mine,
- mislead,
- mole trap,
- mousetrap,
- net,
- noose,
- offer bait to,
- pitfall,
- plant,
- rattrap,
- rope in,
- seduce,
- seducement,
- set gun,
- shill,
- snare,
- snarl,
- sniggle,
- spread the toils,
- spring gun,
- stall,
- stool pigeon,
- stoolie,
- suck in,
- tangle,
- tempt,
- temptation,
- toll,
- trap,
- trapfall,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- wile,
- wind,
- woo
- simulation
collapse
- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" related words >
- accordance,
- acting,
- adoption,
- affectation,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- appearance,
- approach,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cheating,
- closeness,
- color,
- coloring,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- identity,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- infringement,
- likeness,
- likening,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- metaphor,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mirroring,
- mocking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- bubble
collapse
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling" related words >
- air,
- air pocket,
- airy hope,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- autism,
- babble,
- ball,
- balloon,
- be enthusiastic,
- bilge,
- bladder,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- blob,
- blubber,
- boil,
- boil over,
- boll,
- bolus,
- boss,
- bow,
- brainchild,
- bubble over,
- bubble up,
- bubbles,
- bulb,
- bulbil,
- bulblet,
- bulge,
- bulla,
- bump,
- bunch,
- burble,
- burl,
- button,
- cahot,
- carbonation,
- carry on over,
- chaff,
- chimera,
- china,
- chine,
- chip,
- churn,
- clump,
- cobweb,
- condyle,
- convex,
- cork,
- daydream,
- deception,
- delirium,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dowel,
- down,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- droplet,
- dust,
- ear,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- eggshell,
- eidolon,
- ellipsoid,
- enthuse,
- ephemera,
- ephemeral,
- ephemerid,
- ephemerides,
- ephemeris,
- ether,
- fairy,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- feather,
- ferment,
- fiction,
- figment,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- flange,
- flap,
- flue,
- fluff,
- foam,
- froth,
- fuzz,
- gall,
- geoid,
- glass,
- glass house,
- globe,
- globelet,
- globoid,
- globule,
- glomerulus,
- gnarl,
- go on over,
- gob,
- gobbet,
- golden dream,
- gossamer,
- guggle,
- gurgle,
- gush,
- gush over,
- hallucination,
- handle,
- hill,
- hiss,
- house of cards,
- hump,
- hunch,
- ice,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- jog,
- joggle,
- knob,
- knot,
- knur,
- knurl,
- lap,
- lather,
- lip,
- loop,
- lump,
- maggot,
- make much of,
- make-believe,
- matchwood,
- mayfly,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mist,
- moil,
- mole,
- mote,
- mountain,
- myth,
- nevus,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nubble,
- oblate spheroid,
- old paper,
- orb,
- orbit,
- orblet,
- papilloma,
- parchment,
- peg,
- pellet,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piecrust,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- plash,
- plop,
- prolate spheroid,
- purl,
- quixotic ideal,
- rainbow,
- rave,
- rave about,
- rhapsodize,
- rib,
- ridge,
- ring,
- ripple,
- romance,
- rondure,
- seethe,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- shadow,
- shoulder,
- sick fancy,
- simmer,
- slosh,
- smoke,
- smolder,
- snows of yesteryear,
- sparkle,
- sphere,
- spheroid,
- spherule,
- spine,
- spirit,
- splash,
- sponge,
- spume,
- stir,
- straw,
- stud,
- style,
- suds,
- swash,
- swish,
- tab,
- take on over,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thin air,
- thistledown,
- trick,
- trill,
- trip,
- tubercle,
- tubercule,
- unreal hope,
- utopia,
- vapor,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- vision,
- wale,
- wart,
- wash,
- welt,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- work,
- wrong impression
- mystification
collapse
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- something designed to mystify or bewilder related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- amorphousness,
- anagoge,
- anagogics,
- anthroposophy,
- apparent soundness,
- burial,
- burying,
- cabala,
- cabalism,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- closed,
- clouding,
- college of Laputa,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- corruption,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- dark,
- darkening,
- darkness,
- deception,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esotericism,
- esoterics,
- esoterism,
- esotery,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- fuzziness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hocus-pocus,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- insincerity,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masking,
- misapplication,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mist,
- misteaching,
- mistiness,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystery,
- mysticism,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscurity,
- occultation,
- occultism,
- opacity,
- oversubtlety,
- perplexity,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- putting away,
- rationalization,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- shapelessness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- symbolics,
- symbolism,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unplainness,
- vagueness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- why,
- yoga,
- yogeeism,
- yogism
- window dressing
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- the decoration of shop windows related words >
- acting,
- adjunct,
- adornment,
- affectation,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- arrangement,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloring,
- deception,
- decor,
- decoration,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaboration,
- embellishment,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illumination,
- imposture,
- lap,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- put-on,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- trim,
- trimming,
- varnish,
- veneer
- speciousness
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- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- apparent soundness,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- circularity,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- disingenuousness,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- public image,
- rationalization,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- window dressing
- camouflage
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- device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
- fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
- disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory" related words >
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- becloud,
- befog,
- belie,
- blanket,
- blind,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- cloak,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- concealment,
- contrast,
- cover,
- cover up,
- cover-up,
- curtain,
- deception,
- difference,
- dim,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissemblance,
- dissemble,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilate,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulate,
- distort,
- distract attention from,
- divergence,
- diversity,
- domino,
- dress up,
- eclipse,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- exaggerate,
- facade,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false front,
- falsify,
- fudge,
- garble,
- gild,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- hide,
- incognito,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- keep under cover,
- makeup,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mummery,
- nonuniformity,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- parody,
- pervert,
- poor imitation,
- protective coloration,
- screen,
- shade,
- show,
- shroud,
- slant,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- strain,
- titivate,
- travesty,
- trick out,
- trickery,
- twist,
- understate,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- vary,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- warp,
- whitewash,
- wrench
- imposture
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- pretending to be another person related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copy,
- copying,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeiting,
- cozenage,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- emulation,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- front,
- gambit,
- gerrymandering,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hit-off,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposition,
- impression,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- phony,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- ploy,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- put-on,
- quackery,
- quackishness,
- quackism,
- racket,
- repetition,
- representation,
- ruse,
- scam,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- swindle,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing
- burial
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- the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave related words >
- baptism,
- barrow,
- beehive tomb,
- bone house,
- box grave,
- burial at sea,
- burial chamber,
- burial customs,
- burial mound,
- burying,
- catacombs,
- cenotaph,
- charnel house,
- cist,
- cist grave,
- clouding,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- cortege,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cromlech,
- crypt,
- darkening,
- dead march,
- deception,
- deep six,
- deposition,
- dip,
- dipping,
- dirge,
- dokhma,
- dolmen,
- dousing,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- encoffinment,
- engulfment,
- entombment,
- exequies,
- funeral,
- funeral procession,
- funerary customs,
- grave,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- house of death,
- immergence,
- immersion,
- inhumation,
- interment,
- inundation,
- inurning,
- invisibility,
- last home,
- last post,
- long home,
- low green tent,
- low house,
- masking,
- mastaba,
- mausoleum,
- monstrance,
- muffled drum,
- mummy chamber,
- mystification,
- narrow house,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obsequies,
- occultation,
- ossuarium,
- ossuary,
- passage grave,
- pit,
- primary burial,
- putting away,
- pyramid,
- reburial,
- reliquary,
- resting place,
- screening,
- secondary burial,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- sepulcher,
- sepulture,
- shaft grave,
- shrine,
- sinking,
- souse,
- sousing,
- stupa,
- submergence,
- submersion,
- subterfuge,
- taps,
- tomb,
- tope,
- tower of silence,
- tumulus,
- uncommunicativeness,
- urn burial,
- vault
- Waterloo,
- asylum,
- beating,
- blanketing,
- blocking,
- blotting out,
- bolt-hole,
- burial,
- burying,
- cache,
- cementwork,
- cloaking,
- clouding,
- coating,
- collapse,
- concealedness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- corner,
- cover,
- coverage,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covert,
- covertness,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- crash,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- curtaining,
- dark corner,
- darkening,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- deception,
- defeat,
- den,
- destruction,
- downfall,
- dressing-down,
- drubbing,
- dugout,
- eclipse,
- eclipsing,
- envelopment,
- enwrapment,
- enwrapping,
- failure,
- fall,
- foxhole,
- funk hole,
- hiddenness,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- incrustation,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- lair,
- lambasting,
- larruping,
- lathering,
- laying on,
- leathering,
- licking,
- mantling,
- masking,
- mastery,
- mystification,
- niche,
- nonrevealing,
- nook,
- obduction,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscuring,
- occultation,
- overcoming,
- overlaying,
- overspreading,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- paddling,
- pargeting,
- plasterwork,
- putting away,
- quietus,
- recess,
- refuge,
- retreat,
- ruin,
- sanctuary,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secret place,
- secretion,
- sheathing,
- shielding,
- shrouding,
- smash,
- stash,
- stuccowork,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjugation,
- subterfuge,
- superimposition,
- superposition,
- tanning,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- trouncing,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undercovert,
- undisclosing,
- undoing,
- unrevealing,
- upholstering,
- upholstery,
- vanquishment,
- veiling,
- walloping,
- whaling,
- whipping,
- wrapping
- trickery
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- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way related words >
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- bravery,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- conjuration,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- escamotage,
- evasiveness,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- festoons,
- fetch,
- finery,
- flippancy,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- frivolity,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gambit,
- game,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gingerbread,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hocus-pocus,
- hokey-pokey,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- knavery,
- legerdemain,
- levity,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- merriment,
- monkey business,
- move,
- mumbo jumbo,
- paste,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pinchbeck,
- playfulness,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prankishness,
- pranksomeness,
- prestidigitation,
- racket,
- red herring,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- slyness,
- sportiveness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- superfluity,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- trumpery,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- waggery,
- waggishness,
- wile,
- wily device
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- baseness,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chouse,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- deviousness,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hairsplitting,
- hanky-panky,
- hedging,
- hocus-pocus,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- scurvy trick,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- sophistry,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- surreptitiousness,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- wile,
- wily device
- casuistry
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- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
- argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Stoicism,
- aesthetics,
- altruistic ethics,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- apparent soundness,
- aretaics,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- axiology,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- categorical imperative,
- circularity,
- comparative ethics,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cosmology,
- crossed fingers,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defense,
- delusion,
- deontology,
- disingenuousness,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- distortion,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- emptiness,
- epistemology,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethics,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evasive reasoning,
- evolutionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- first philosophy,
- flyting,
- gnosiology,
- golden rule,
- hassle,
- hedonism,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hubbub,
- insincerity,
- intuitionism,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- litigation,
- logic,
- logomachy,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ontology,
- oversubtlety,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- perfectionism,
- perversion,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- rationalization,
- rhubarb,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- set-to,
- situation ethics,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- utilitarianism,
- value theory,
- verbal engagement,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- war of words,
- wrangling
- ballot-box stuffing,
- balls,
- baloney,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- blague,
- bosh,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunco,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burn,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- claptrap,
- cock-and-bull story,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crap,
- crib,
- deception,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- euchre,
- exaggeration,
- eyewash,
- fairy tale,
- fake,
- fakement,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- finagle,
- fish story,
- fishy transaction,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- gerrymandering,
- ghost story,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- gull,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- half-truth,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hooey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- jiggery-pokery,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- moonshine,
- mulct,
- pack the deal,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pious fiction,
- practice fraud upon,
- prevarication,
- put-on,
- racket,
- rip-off,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sham,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- slight stretching,
- spoof,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- story,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- victimize,
- white lie,
- yarn
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