All pretence synonyms

noun pretence

• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• domino — a flat, thumbsized, rectangular block, the face of which is divided into two parts, each either blank or bearing from one to six pips or dots: 28 such pieces form a complete set.
• quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• 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.
• cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
• characterization — Characterization is the way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• masquerade — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
• closeting — Present participle of closet.
• glibness — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
• 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.
• defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• hamming — an actor or performer who overacts.
• nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
• mummery — the performance of mummers.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• 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.
• guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
• doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• impersonation — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
• acting — Acting is the activity or profession of performing in plays or films.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• airs — affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
• jiving — swing music or early jazz.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• faking — Present participle of fake.
• 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.
• floridness — The quality of being florid.
• entitlement — The fact of having a right to something.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• fooling — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
• affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.

adj pretence