All fakery synonyms

noun fakery

• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• 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.
• pretext — something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
• semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
• cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• veneer — a thin layer of wood or other material for facing or inlaying wood.
• farce — a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
• forgery — the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
• travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• tall tale — far-fetched story
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
• distortion — an act or instance of distorting.
• perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• feigning — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• 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.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
• imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
• pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
• pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
• dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
• playacting — to engage in make-believe.
• claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• invention — the act of inventing.