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Noun
▲
Fake or overdramatic behavior
act
airs
charade
disguise
facade
front
guise
masquerade
façade
pose
pretenceUK
pretenseUS
show
semblance
put-on
veneer
mask
veil
appearance
face
sham
cloak
false front
affectation
false display
pretension
illusion
fake
make-believe
cover
fraud
stratagem
flimflam
manoeuvreUK
dodge
maneuverUS
device
scheme
machination
shroud
scam
spoof
cheat
swindle
shift
wheeze
sleight
humbug
smoke and mirrors
lie
expedient
contrivance
exaggeration
gambit
sting
curtain
play
lurk
con trick
mantle
forgery
hood
imposition
sell
snare
burlesque
duplicity
fetch
wraps
rort
bunco
gyp
grift
set-up
chicanery
dissembling
rig
schlenter
flanker
confidence trick
affectedness
quackery
caricature
artificiality
shield
bait
cheating
copy
tactic
blanket
snobbery
hokum
pretensions
inflation
grandiosity
superciliousness
penumbra
coverture
pall
cope
move
codology
kidology
trap
distortion
gimmick
joke
side
send-up
cartoon
lampoon
distraction
juggle
shenanigan
knack
jig
snootiness
uppishness
racket
ambush
concealment
decoy
rip-off
poor substitute
going Hollywood
showing off
unnatural imitation
airs and graces
snow job
assumed manners
putting on airs
enactment
parade
hypocrisy
duping
shell
presentation
outside
robe
intrigue
visage
shade
swindling
fraudulence
charlatanry
bluster
assumption
ambition
aspiration
title
allegation
maintenance
demand
declaration
ambitiousness
Trojan horse
leg-pull
wrap
shawl
envelope
outward display
snivel
take-off
caper
deviousness
cunning
scheming
craft
charlatanism
apology
fiddle
hocus-pocus
leaf
guile
refuge
plan
dirty trick
dirty work
whitewash
sellout
crocodile tears
craftiness
bluffing
letdown
bragging
bravado
bombast
artfulness
slyness
disguising
closeting
jive
phoniness
reproduction
laughing stock
idle boast
sleight of hand
savvy
dishonesty
deceitfulness
grounds
smoke-screen
fiction
smoke
snow
mere show
boast
braggadocio
jiving
alibi
mock-up
dummy
correlation
association
relationship
correspondence
counterfeiting
lookalike
hoodwinking
arrogance
cop-out
pinchbeck
dupe
knock-off
pirate
comparison
connection
parallel
cover story
song and dance
alleged reason
supposed grounds
ostensible reason
false excuse
pseudo
four-flusher
junque
gold brick
replica
spectreUK
outward
specterUS
duck
plot
canard
conspiracy
spectacle
approach
lure
sharp practice
treachery
fastie
apparition
vision
mirage
phenomenon
reflection
idea
mock attack
perversion
analogy
nearness
attraction
enticement
ensnarement
inducement
corruption
temptation
allurement
draw
carrot
takeoff
pitfall
entrapment
apology for
ridicule
poor imitation
roast
mock
excuse for
satire
lampoonery
plant
booster
stoolie
chicane
blow off
sitting duck
come-on
stick
inveiglement
drawing card
catch
nark
stool pigeon
seducement
shill
more ❯
“Even here, his so-called honor is little more than a form of playacting, both maudlin and dishonest.”
Noun
▲
An instance of acting something out
enactment
performance
acting
performing
playing
portrayal
staging
depiction
personation
representation
accomplishment
achievement
appearance
commission
discharge
execution
fulfillmentUS
fulfilmentUK
implementation
perpetration
personification
prosecution
pursuance
play-acting
impersonation
presentation
acting out
carrying out
operation
application
finish
resolution
perfection
ending
pass
stunt
end
termination
cessation
administering
windup
enterprise
finis
expiration
wrap-up
wind-up
finalizationUS
finale
finalisationUK
stop
implementing
venture
closure
terminus
cease
denouement
discontinuance
outcome
curtain
desistance
result
enforcing
consequence
upshot
acquittal
achieving
exaction
maturity
crowning
curtains
pulling off
halt
discontinuation
stoppage
adventure
shutdown
trick
arrestment
arrest
cutoff
surcease
shutoff
endgame
homestretch
lapse
closedown
number
check
capper
caper
grand finale
adjournment
issue
determination
expiry
retirement
mop-up
stroke of genius
end result
desuetude
bottom line
feather in your cap
last word
sign-off
omega
payoff
end of the line
discharging
adoption
capping
perfecting
exploits
exploitation
onboarding
feats
step
delivering
bestowal
ripeness
stratagem
climax
epilogueUK
acts
hit
coda
thing
endeavourUK
ripening
honouringUK
honoringUS
closing stages
peroration
final word
breakup
last part
epilogUS
direction
obtaining
getting
realizingUS
securing
doings
readiness
fruitfulness
satisfaction
gratification
pleasure
satisfying
something done
imposing
exacting
gain
reaping
endeavorUS
meeting
procuring
acquiring
inflicting
infliction
gest
doling out
meting out
dispensation
dealing out
carrying into action
realisingUK
arrival at
succeeding
provision
making good
period
stopping point
target
insistence
reinforcement
obligation
requirement
adherence to
successful manoeuvre
complete success
act of genius
turn
piece
coercion
spur
pressure
impulsion
duress
lash
compulsion
prescription
whip
necessitation
completeness
integration
hips
opus
composition
bit
song
shtick
tune
track
schtick
martial law
compulsory law
sketch
dance
item
finishing point
swan song
wrap
product
finished product
conception
innovation
end product
article
outgrowth
origination
aspiration
final product
output
aftereffect
brainchild
yield
concoction
fruit
handicraft
design
by-product
corollary
invention
formulation
final result
aftermath
genesis
derivative
offshoot
offspring
affair
development
dénouement
death
liquidation
winding-up
last stage
last
end of the road
final part
run-in
final stage
final act
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Unnatural, artificial or fake in nature
affected
artificial
assumed
forced
pretended
strained
unnatural
contrived
overblown
overdone
simulated
stiff
fake
feigned
hollow
insincere
laboredUS
labouredUK
mock
overripe
overworked
pseudo
counterfeit
faked
mannered
phoneyUK
unconvincing
exaggerated
imitation
phonyUS
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
overemphasisedUK
highly coloured
hyped up
a bit much
beyond all bounds
laid on with a trowel
deceiving
inaccurate
unfounded
erroneous
deluding
beguiling
mistaken
distorted
untruthful
unsound
inexact
illusory
sophistical
mythical
off
flawed
imprecise
dishonest
fictional
fanciful
faulty
illogical
casuistic
worthless
unsubstantiated
chimerical
baseless
counterfactual
misguided
fantastic
visionary
truthless
fabulous
trumped up
sophistic
tricky
misrepresentative
illusive
without foundation
crooked
dodgy
way off
fantasied
chimeric
phantom
fantastical
ideal
notional
mythic
phantasmal
imaginal
phantasmic
in error
dissembling
double-dealing
unreliable
equivocal
ambiguous
groundless
unproven
disingenuous
unsupported
ungrounded
fantasy
mad
unreasoned
fantasizedUS
dream
duplicitous
pseudo-
dreamed-up
fancied
improper
dicey
reasonless
iffy
pinchbeck
coloredUS
treacherous
fictive
underhand
nonnatural
colouredUK
falsie
crafty
guileful
out
cooked-up
off beam
bad
shady
sharp
vain
full of holes
copy
play-play
shifty
unscrupulous
mendacious
unprincipled
duplicate
fast
underhanded
rogue
fantasisedUK
plausible
nugatory
representative
economical with the truth
bootlegged
unverified
dubious
legendary
unauthenticated
doubtful
questionable
irrational
unqualified
repro
uncanonical
glib
miniature
illusionary
cooked up
devised
non-natural
debatable
confusing
made
makeshift
constructed
copycat
evasive
low-grade
low-quality
poor-quality
shoddy
inferior
prepared
mythological
allonymous
ostensive
semi-
nominal
unoriginal
amiss
misinformed
experimental
unsatisfactory
substandard
adulterated
unfactual
nonfactual
off the mark
contrary to fact
terminologically inexact
near
reported
foundationless
casuistical
lookalike
gingerbread
not accurate
not exact
not true
ill-founded
uncorroborated
unstraightforward
wide of the mark
awry
askew
defective
abroad
off target
mock-up
not the case
without basis
off base
way out
knock off
sly
sneaky
cunning
untrustworthy
scheming
misconceived
null
wrong number
all wet
all off
perfidious
Machiavellian
bewildering
distracting
perplexing
mistakable
demagogic
confounding
puzzling
way off beam
empty
likely
captious
colorable
presumable
credible
probable
sophisticated
flattering
presumptive
idle
insubstantial
quixotic
null and void
void
nonvalid
nonbinding
inoperative
subtle
slippery
foxy
slim
hollow-hearted
seemingly correct
not binding
uncollectible
double-faced
Punic
false-hearted
plausible but wrong
apparently right
insidious
rascal
roguish
designing
serpentine
oblique
slick
astucious
indirect
wily
acted
swindling
criminal
corrupt
illicit
dishonourableUK
unlawful
Janus-faced
defrauding
dirty
unjust
unethical
shonky
knavish
bamboozling
dishonorableUS
against the law
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for pretend
play-acting
faking
feigning
acting
posing
shamming
simulating
masquerading
counterfeiting
imagining
dissembling
imitating
playing
impersonating
supposing
mimicking
portraying
purporting
representing
reproducing
fronting
putting on
making up
putting on an act
putting on airs
putting on a front
assuming the role
making out like
making as if
pretending
dissimulating
masking
hiding
concealing
cloaking
veiling
disguising
camouflaging
whitewashing
dressing up
suppressing
lying
obscuring
falsifying
kidding
letting on
making out
covering up
putting on a false front
putting it on
screening
shrouding
covering
hushing up
keeping dark
malingering
shucking and jiving
going through the motions
keeping secret
playing possum
four-flushing
misleading
putting up a smoke screen
stonewalling
drawing a veil over
hoaxing
seeming to be
posturing as
pretending to be
bearding
presenting a false face
presenting a false front
making a pretense
occulting
blanketing
alleging
obfuscating
withholding
enshrouding
making inconspicuous
putting up a smokescreen
muffling
curtaining
keeping under your hat
blotting out
papering over
claiming
downplaying
varnishing
veneering
minimizingUS
misrepresenting
aspiring
suckering
jazzing
hoodwinking
fudging
cozening
claiming falsely
faking out
beguiling
laying claim
deluding
jiving
cheating
passing yourself off as
fooling
duping
fishing
extenuating
airbrushing
secreting
sugarcoating
keeping quiet about
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
de-emphasizing
sweeping something under the carpet
minimisingUK
keeping a lid on
sweeping something under the rug
pussyfooting
making like
passing
signifying
fabricating
forging
inventing
devising
messing
making a pretence of
making show of
putting on act
giving appearance of
giving the appearance of
going through the motions of
making a show of
putting on a false display
more ❯
Verb
▲
(masquerade as) Present participle for to pretend to be someone one is not
masquerading
impersonating
playing
imitating
personating
simulating
doing
faking
attitudinizing
posing
posturing
pretending
disguising as
posing as
pretending to be
masking as
passing as
passing for
passing off
acting like
disguising yourself
faking being
passing oneself off as
acting out
assuming character
disguising oneself as
doing an impression of
masquerading as
professing to be
representing oneself as
taking the part of
acting a part
assuming the character of
making as if
making like
making like a
passing yourself off
playing a role
purporting to be
putting on an act
affecting
feigning
setting oneself up as
presenting as
claiming to be
describing as
assuming the identity of
feigning the identity of
reflecting
repeating
paralleling
counterfeiting
parallelling
assuming
falsifying
forging
borrowing
shamming
doing likewise
putting on
modeling after
patterning after
doing like
doing an impression
playing a part
following in footsteps
making out
trying to be like
playing at
affecting the role of
giving the appearance of
assuming the role of
going through the motions of
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a show of
daydreaming
dreaming
fantasisingUK
fantasizingUS
pretending
imagining
playing
play-acting
bluffing
counterfeiting
enacting
faking
fancying
feigning
fooling
musing
romancing
simulating
indulging in fantasy
acting as if
acting as though
building castles in Spain
letting on like
making as if
playing the part
building castles in the air
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
describing
reenacting
adapting
imaging
picturing
expressing
setting forth
articulating
communicating
improvising
giving expression to
playing a part
taking part
coming on stage
coming onstage
taking part in
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretence 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
favoringUS
favouringUK
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
forging
falsifying
replicating
coining
mimicking
dittoing
minting
duping
mimeoing
statting
impersonating
defrauding
cloning
deluding
doctoring
tracing
framing
scratching
transcribing
duplicating
copying fraudulently
designing
going like
making money
fiddling
altering
spoofing
trumping up
circulating bad money
tampering with
tinkering with
fiddling with
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a performance of
dramatisingUK
dramatizingUS
exaggerating
overdoing
overstating
amplifying
sensationalisingUK
sensationalizingUS
catastrophizing
embellishing
embroidering
hyperbolizing
inflating
magnifying
overemphasisingUK
overemphasizingUS
overplaying
overstressing
aggrandizing
coloringUS
colouringUK
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
acquiting yourself
bearing yourself
comporting oneself
conducting oneself
conducting yourself
deporting oneself
deporting yourself
muddling through
staggering along
coming on like
rendering the role
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