Exact Match:
- dissembling
- concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- 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
- 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
- hypocritical
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- professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- alleged,
- ambidextrous,
- assumed,
- avowed,
- bland,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- claimed,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- fake,
- faked,
- faking,
- false,
- feigned,
- feigning,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- in name only,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- moralistic,
- oily,
- ostensible,
- pecksniffian,
- perfidious,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pretended,
- pretending,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- put-on,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sham,
- simon-pure,
- simulated,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- specious,
- spurious,
- treacherous,
- two-faced,
- unctuous,
- underhand,
- untrustworthy
- 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
- 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
- evasive
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- deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
- avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action" related words >
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- bickering,
- cagey,
- captious,
- casuistic,
- caviling,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dissembling,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocal,
- equivocating,
- equivocatory,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- intangible,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- misleading,
- nit-picking,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevaricating,
- pussyfooting,
- questionable,
- quibbling,
- rotten,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- sliding,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sophistical,
- suspicious,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- trichoschistic,
- tricky,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unclear,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vague,
- weasel-worded,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- pretext
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- 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
- 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
- simulation
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- insincere
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- lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- ambidextrous,
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- artificial,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- calculating,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- colorable,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- evasive,
- fair-spoken,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- gushing,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- lying,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- pharisaic,
- philosophistic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- plausible,
- pretentious,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- scheming,
- self-righteous,
- shifty,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stagy,
- sycophantic,
- theatrical,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wheedling,
- wily
- acting
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- the performance of a part or role in a drama related words >
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- 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,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- pretense
collapse
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- deception
collapse
- the act of deceiving related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- airy nothing,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- befooling,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- burial,
- burying,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- clouding,
- color,
- coloring,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cunning,
- darkening,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dirt,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- duping,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- gulling,
- gyp,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hoax,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- impose,
- imposture,
- indirection,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- knavery,
- manipulation,
- masking,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overreaching,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- putting away,
- representation,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ruse,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- seeming,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- snow job,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing,
- wrong impression
- falsity
collapse
- the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" related words >
- Punic faith,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- blague,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- canard,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- cock-and-bull story,
- color,
- coloring,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- disingenuousness,
- disloyalty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fairy tale,
- faithlessness,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fib,
- fickleness,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- front,
- ghost story,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- half-truth,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- illusion,
- imposture,
- inconstancy,
- infidelity,
- insincerity,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mala fides,
- masquerade,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misrepresentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- pious fiction,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- recreancy,
- representation,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slight stretching,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trothlessness,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- uncandidness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- varnish,
- white lie,
- window dressing,
- wrong,
- wrongness,
- yarn
- ostentation
collapse
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- arabesque,
- arrantness,
- attitudinizing,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boldness,
- cheating,
- chinoiserie,
- color,
- coloring,
- conspicuousness,
- convolution,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- enactment,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanciness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fineness,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flaunting,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high relief,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- magniloquence,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- opening,
- orotundity,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outstandingness,
- outward show,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- parade,
- performance,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- production,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- prose run mad,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- richness,
- rococo,
- salience,
- saliency,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnish,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- window dressing
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