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fakery collapse: the act of faking (or the product of faking)

ranter collapse: someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner

mystify collapse: make mysterious; "mystify the story"

bullshit collapse: obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"; talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

hokum collapse

quack collapse: the harsh sound of a duck; an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice; act as a medical quack or a charlatan; utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"

outwit collapse: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

mountebank collapse: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

sell out collapse: give information that compromises others; get rid of all one's merchandise

posing collapse

fustian collapse: a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

hoax collapse: subject to a playful hoax or joke

hogwash collapse

canard collapse: a deliberately misleading fabrication

ringer collapse: (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg; a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses; a person who is almost identical to another

formalist collapse

dissemblance collapse

forestall collapse

playacting collapse

outreach collapse: the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the human spirit"

impostor collapse

eyewash collapse

fiddle faddle collapse

buncombe collapse

string along collapse

get around collapse: move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?"

defraud collapse

balls collapse

conjure collapse

deceit collapse

bombast collapse: pompous or pretentious talk or writing

rodomontade collapse

crap collapse: obscene terms for feces

pretext collapse: something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

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

outmaneuver collapse: defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops outmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new supervisor knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations"

false show collapse

impersonator collapse: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another

gobbledygook collapse: incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists

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"

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