All coverup synonyms

noun coverup

• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• gimmick — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
• hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
• ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• wrinkle — an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
• bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
• con game — a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler; a shortened form of confidence game
• confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
• mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
• snow job — an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• charade — If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
• color — the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
• colour — The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.
• coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
• colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
• costume — An actor's or performer's costume is the set of clothes they wear while they are performing.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• dress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
• facade — Architecture. the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
• pageant — an elaborate public spectacle illustrative of the history of a place, institution, or the like, often given in dramatic form or as a procession of colorful floats.
• pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
• pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
• pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
• put-on — an act or instance of putting someone on.
• veneer — a thin layer of wood or other material for facing or inlaying wood.
• false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
• get-up — costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.
• pen name — a pseudonym used by an author; nom de plume.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.