All pretense synonyms

noun pretense

• 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.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• acting — Acting is the activity or profession of performing in plays or films.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• blow off — If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
• bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
• masquerade — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
• bss — British Standards Specification
• 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.
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
• cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
• ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• banana — Bananas are long curved fruit with yellow skins.
• cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• characterization — Characterization is the way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like.
• drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• color — the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
• guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
• quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
• 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.
• cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
• 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.
• 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.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• impersonation — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• fooling — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• 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.
• dominoes — 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.
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest