All coverup synonyms

noun coverup

• semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• song — Ailing [ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (Show IPA), Soong, Ai-ling.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• stopgap — something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
• storey — story2 .
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• vindication — the act of vindicating.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
• fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
• song and dance — a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
• hiding — the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.
• secrecy — the state or condition of being secret, hidden, or concealed: a meeting held in secrecy.
• cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
• covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
• curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
• hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
• laundromat — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.
• obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
• occultation — Astronomy. the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied especially to the moon's coming between an observer and a star or planet.
• privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
• secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
• wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
• fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
• obscuration — the act of obscuring.
• smoke screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• crock — A crock is a clay pot or jar.
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.