All pretense synonyms

noun pretense

• affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
• chaser — A chaser is an alcoholic drink that you have after you have drunk a stronger or weaker alcoholic drink.
• jiving — swing music or early jazz.
• faking — Present participle of fake.
• floridness — The quality of being florid.
• characterizations — portrayal; description: the actor's characterization of a politician.
• counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
• buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
• entitlement — The fact of having a right to something.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• dissimilation — the act of making or becoming unlike.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
• mummery — the performance of mummers.
• gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• get-up — costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• 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.
• hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
• clownishness — The state of being clownish.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• feigning — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• fibbery — The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
• cant — a salient angle.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• euphemism — A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
• funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
• mannerism — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
• fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• apery — imitative behaviour; mimicry
• fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
• apology — An apology is something that you say or write in order to tell someone that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them.
• airs — affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
• hamming — an actor or performer who overacts.
• narks — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• bunkum — If you say that something that has been said or written is bunkum, you mean that you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
• quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• mimicry — the act, practice, or art of mimicking.
• cozenage — the practice of cozening.