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Noun
Fake or overdramatic behavior
A theatrical performance using mime
An act of acting, performing or playing a role
Adjective
Unnatural or artificial in one's mannerisms or behavior
Verb
Present participle for to feign or mimic an act, expression or appearance
Present participle for act
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for make a performance of
Present participle for to conduct oneself in a particular way
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▲
Noun
▲
Fake or overdramatic behavior
facade
front
show
pretence
UK
guise
charade
masquerade
act
pretense
US
pose
semblance
façade
disguise
airs
put-on
an act
a scene
veneer
mask
veil
appearance
cloak
false front
face
simulation
posture
affectation
cover
sham
dissimulation
false display
make-believe
pretension
illusion
display
deception
fakery
posturing
air
look
exterior
impression
false show
fake
feigning
smokescreen
gloss
bluff
outward appearance
trick
subterfuge
hoax
window dressing
imitation
artifice
fabrication
image
faking
con
schtick
falsification
screen
color
US
pretentiousness
false pretense
play-acting
false appearance
pageant
colour
UK
impersonation
false colors
parody
travesty
invention
stall
mien
role
posing
camouflage
dumb act
counterfeit
pretext
simulacrum
ruse
trickery
public image
cover-up
deceit
misrepresentation
routine
shuffling
stunt
ostentation
insincerity
garb
evasion
acting
hokum
snivel
bearing
figure
attitude
aspect
disguisement
double-dealing
carriage
coloring
US
window-dressing
covering
colouring
UK
demeanour
UK
performance
dress
name
likeness
demeanor
US
showing
claim
fig leaf
red herring
smoke screen
suggestion
effect
expression
manner
countenance
farce
pantomime
layer
character
falsehood
profession
mockery
personality
identity
part
outward show
mimicry
portrayal
excuse
imposture
mummery
mannerism
personation
revel
costume
masking
self
blind
light
attitudinizing
stand
shamming
stance
put-up job
false colours
personage
person
dissemblance
form
phoniness
beard
chaser
ploy
feint
hamming
phoney
UK
phony
US
dissimilation
approximation
persona
public face
assumed role
fakeness
frontage
sweet talk
soft soap
a put-up job
a put-on
shuck and jive
resemblance
fantasy
similitude
alikeness
seeming
mood
similarity
affinity
aura
feel
feeling
imagination
daydreaming
dream
pretending
unreality
dreaming
romancing
fancy
self-deception
delusion
story
role-playing
fairy tale
game
shroud
smoke and mirrors
humbug
curtain
mantle
scheme
manifestation
hood
wraps
affectedness
artificiality
presence
manoeuvre
UK
stratagem
shield
maneuver
US
presentation
whitewash
machination
cast
snobbery
pretensions
inflation
grandiosity
superciliousness
outward
shape
exaggeration
side
dissembling
blanket
coverture
penumbra
pall
cope
snootiness
uppishness
concealment
outline
shade
lie
airs and graces
going Hollywood
assumed manners
showing off
unnatural imitation
putting on airs
surface
visage
shell
outside
profile
false face
robe
outward display
mere façade
coverup
envelope
spectre
UK
specter
US
spectacle
mode
fraud
bluffing
attractive appearance
PR
regard
hoaxing
forgery
device
contrivance
move
codology
kidology
disguising
closeting
jiving
snow
avatar
depiction
jive
flimflam
expedient
dodge
wile
smoke-screen
mere show
burlesque
sell
spoof
fiction
smoke
quality
public perception
public conception
putting on a front
assuming a front
arrogance
external appearance
outward form
varnish
showmanship
eyewash
property
snow job
public impression
characteristic
flavour
UK
flavor
US
feature
surface show
packaging
essence
trait
complexion
atmosphere
ambience
tone
attribute
stamp
smell
spirit
more ❯
“Even here, his so-called honor is little more than a form of
playacting
, both maudlin and dishonest.”
Noun
▲
A theatrical performance using mime
mime
pantomime
mummery
acting
mimicry
caricature
characterization
imitation
impersonation
portrayal
rendition
depiction
mockery
portraying
theatricals
play acting
dumb show
stagecraft
histrionics
performance
theater
US
dramatics
playing
drama
enacting
improvisation
enactment
hamming
stooging
imitating
dramatizing
US
simulating
showing off
amateur dramatics
the stage
theatre
UK
dramatising
UK
performing arts
performing
theatrics
stage
dramaturgy
thespianism
boards
dramatic art
show business
playing a role
show biz
treading the boards
appearing on stage
thespian art
putting
pretence
UK
posturing
pretense
US
seeming
pretending
feigning
assuming
posing
theatricality
exhibitionism
staginess
theatricalness
representation
staging
interpretation
showy behavior
personation
entertainment
melodramatics
presentation
entertaining
acting out
footlights
theatrical
theatricalism
take
role
imposture
masquerade
pose
role-playing
plays
dramatic arts
troupe
histrionism
appearance
personification
performance as
showmanship
play-acting
farce
stage performance
stage production
histrionic art
Broadway
Thespian art
account
stage show
version
commotion
fuss
entertainment industry
hysterics
excitement
limelight
piece
show
rendering
reading
spectacle
production
extravaganza
concert
event
exhibition
act
gig
cabaret
attraction
theatrical performance
public performance
more ❯
Noun
▲
An act of acting, performing or playing a role
enactment
performance
acting
performing
playing
portrayal
staging
depiction
personation
representation
appearance
personification
impersonation
presentation
play-acting
acting out
Adjective
▲
Unnatural or artificial in one's mannerisms or behavior
affected
artificial
assumed
forced
pretended
strained
unnatural
contrived
overblown
overdone
simulated
stiff
fake
feigned
hollow
insincere
labored
US
laboured
UK
mock
overripe
overworked
pseudo
counterfeit
faked
mannered
phoney
UK
unconvincing
exaggerated
imitation
phony
US
pretend
superficial
bogus
mechanical
plastic
posed
pseud
stilted
factitious
false
posey
sham
spurious
affectated
awkward
conceited
counterfeited
fakey
fraud
ham
hammy
imitated
melodramatic
studied
put on
put-on
fraudulent
deceptive
theatrical
ersatz
actorly
stagy
wooden
fictitious
snide
hypocritical
two-faced
pretentious
specious
dramatic
self-conscious
unctuous
double
not genuine
fishy
histrionic
campy
unreal
lying
manufactured
Pecksniffian
misleading
forged
faux
cod
canting
constrained
duplicitous
double-dealing
dissembling
make-believe
not kosher
left-handed
showy
actressy
synthetic
mealymouthed
overacted
pharisaical
stagey
camp
faithless
jivey
glib
oily
unreliable
feigning
theatric
deluding
smooth
staged
pharisaic
fabricated
pirate
wrong
meretricious
quasi-
phoney-baloney
phony-baloney
grudging
smooth-spoken
smooth-tongued
over-the-top
backhanded
uneasy
mealy
jive
ostentatious
lip
professed
dummy
ostensible
elaborate
improvised
double-faced
Janus-faced
substitute
flamboyant
framed
Hollywood
plant
brummagem
queer
bent
copied
delusory
crock
delusive
unspontaneous
unauthentic
comic
inauthentic
overwrought
avowed
supposititious
operatic
quasi
rigid
inflexible
bound
binding
conscripted
begrudging
stringent
coercive
forcible
virtual
not spontaneous
pseudonymous
suppositious
won't fly
soft shell
self-styled
not real
not legit
uncomfortable
made-up
bland
assuming
captious
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
rehearsed
imitative
mimic
man-made
reproduction
farcical
nonnatural
animated
expressive
seeming
apparent
so-called
purported
splashy
catchy
surface
invented
concocted
deceitful
planned
adopted
chemical
cast
arty-farty
precious
hokey
manipulated
fixed
recherche
voulu
overplayed
overacting
thespian
unrestrained
dishonest
laborious
unrelaxed
alleged
imaginary
untrue
untrustworthy
untruthful
far-fetched
simpering
apish
genteel
highfaluting
chichi
airish
conscious
artsy
overly planned
hypocritic
Tartuffian
Pharisaical
Pharisaic
bluffing
shammed
falsified
supposed
masked
impostrous
in name only
quack
charlatan
cheating
covered
concealed
dissimulated
imposturous
stuck up
gone Hollywood
wannabe
as it were
would-be
to all intents and purposes
pompous
barnstorming
ceremonious
emotional
show
tragic
schmaltzy
dramaturgic
vaudeville
fanciful
fabulous
mythic
chimerical
visionary
mythical
presumed
fictive
claimed
reputed
fantasy
illusory
nonexistent
legendary
imagined
putative
traditional
fabled
fictional
declared
ostensive
whimsical
nominal
replica
fairy-tale
created
storied
folkloric
allegorical
pseudo-
outward
evident
fantastic
storybook
ideal
fantasied
chimeric
phantom
phantasmal
fantastical
imaginal
notional
phantasmic
mythologic
semblant
mythological
prima facie
soi-disant
epic
reported
dreamed-up
fancied
stated
perceived
titular
invalid
symbolic
hypothetical
semi-
near
illusive
formal
likely
facsimile
non-existent
plausible
theoretical
in title only
heroic
appearing
partly
apparently
supposedly
seemingly
fallacious
unqualified
made
makeshift
constructed
possible
exterior
dud
practice
trial
larger-than-life
probable
parabolic
symbolical
to all appearances
worthless
gingerbread
ungenuine
adulterine
trumped-up
knock off
phantasmagoric
intangible
insubstantial
immaterial
nebulous
official
ceremonial
named
emblematic
token
paper
suspicious
suspect
impalpable
dreamlike
suspected
rumoured
UK
given
honorary
figmental
unsubstantial
weird
romantic
incredible
reachy
hallucinatory
aerial
unbelievable
fantasized
US
dream
allegedly
itular
designated
simple
mentioned
puppet
suggested
out of this world
described
asserted
unproven
averred
self-appointed
affirmed
doubtful
self-titled
presupposed
dubious
unproved
rumored
US
questionable
exhibited
manifest
self-named
play-play
notable
colorable
demonstrative
inappropriately named
commonly named
wrongly named
fantasised
UK
acted
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feign or mimic an act, expression or appearance
play-acting
faking
feigning
acting
simulating
shamming
posing
counterfeiting
masquerading
posturing
dissembling
playing
imitating
impersonating
portraying
mimicking
reproducing
fronting
hamming
purporting
putting it on
putting on
putting on an act
making up
putting on airs
making out like
putting on a front
assuming the role
making as if
hamming it up
pretending
affecting
professing
bluffing
putting up a front
passing off
making like
passing oneself off as
passing for
assuming
personating
doing
masquerading as
posing as
attitudinizing
purporting to be
acting out
playing a role
taking the part of
acting a part
doing a bit
assuming character
professing to be
representing
playing the part of
representing oneself as
pretending to be
doing an impression of
acting like
disguising yourself
playing at
fabricating
adopting
taking on
striking
pulling
aping
faking it
making a pretence of
laying it on thick
aspiring to
contriving
giving the appearance of
going through the motions of
making a show of
parodying
caricaturing
travestying
satirizing
US
mocking
burlesquing
lampooning
enacting
monkeying
spoofing
taking off
mirroring
dressing as
sending up
doubling as
embodying
copying
satirising
UK
dittoing
making fun of
showboating
grandstanding
acting as if
playing the part
acting as though
fooling
letting on like
striking a pose
behaving affectedly
showing off
striking an attitude
assuming an attitude
copping an attitude
taking off as
disguising as
faking being
passing yourself off
making like a
assuming the character of
passing as
disguising oneself as
masking as
dissimulating
kidding
disguising
lying
going through the motions
putting on a false front
masking
hiding
concealing
veiling
deceiving
cloaking
falsifying
camouflaging
misleading
making out
letting on
dressing up
playing possum
four-flushing
shucking and jiving
hoaxing
seeming to be
posturing as
claiming falsely
faking out
forging
inventing
devising
malingering
messing
whitewashing
stonewalling
shrouding
pussyfooting
covering
making show of
putting on act
giving appearance of
putting on a false display
covering up
putting up a smoke screen
obscuring
suppressing
bearding
making a pretense
making a show
presenting a false face
presenting a false front
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for act
treading the boards
acting
appearing on stage
performing
strutting one's stuff
portraying
depicting
personating
playing
impersonating
representing
presenting
executing
doing
enacting
hamming
staging
interpreting
emoting
hamming it up
acting out
rendering
appearing as
playing the part of
appearing
mounting
going on
discoursing
achieving
appearing in
putting on
playing a gig
pretending to be
reading a part
masquerading as
taking the role of
taking the part of
being
starring as
role-playing
carrying out
play-acting
posing as
acting the part of
characterizing
US
personifying
imitating
manifesting
exhibiting
mimicking
displaying
dramatising
UK
characterising
UK
dramatizing
US
producing
evincing
showing
reenacting
adapting
imaging
picturing
improvising
reconstructing
playing a part
taking part
coming on stage
coming onstage
taking part in
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
simulating
pretending
feigning
affecting
shamming
acting
counterfeiting
faking
assuming
bluffing
dissembling
imitating
professing
putting on
reproducing
fabricating
aping
borrowing
cheating
concocting
copying
creating
cribbing
deceiving
disguising
doing
equivocating
exaggerating
favoring
US
favouring
UK
featuring
fencing
inventing
lying
lifting
mirroring
misrepresenting
parroting
passing for
pirating
playing
posing
prevaricating
resembling
stealing
suggesting
acting like
acting out
conjuring up
doing like
glossing over
knocking off
mocking up
taking off
doing a take-off
giving the appearance of
going through the motions of
putting on an act
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a performance of
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
exaggerating
overdoing
overstating
amplifying
sensationalising
UK
sensationalizing
US
catastrophizing
embellishing
embroidering
hyperbolizing
inflating
magnifying
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
overplaying
overstressing
aggrandizing
coloring
US
colouring
UK
elaborating
gilding
heightening
play-acting
acting
blowing up
burlesquing
dressing up
enacting
executing
expanding on
melodramatizing
performing
presenting
producing
showing
splashing
staging
touching up
tragedizing
hams up
laying on
playing up
giving color to
hamming it up
laying it on
laying it on thick
making a performance of
playing on heartstrings
playing to gallery
playing to the gallery
making a big thing out of
making a production of
blowing up out of all proportion
Verb
▲
Present participle for to conduct oneself in a particular way
doing
acting
behaving
comporting
performing
acquiting oneself
appearing
bearing
carrying
conducting
deporting
discoursing
enacting
operating
personating
playing
portraying oneself
seeming
bearing oneself
comporting yourself
conducting oneself
conducting yourself
deporting oneself
muddling through
staggering along
coming on like
rendering the role
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