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- 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
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