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What is another word for
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Noun
The act of imagining
The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are
Stage acting
Display intended to excite admiration or applause
Adjective
Ostensibly employed, but wasting time
Supposed but not necessarily real or true
Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive
Verb
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for engage in an imaginative game or fantasy
Present participle for behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not
Going through the motions of having
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
Present participle for appear to be or do something, especially falsely
Present participle for make a show of
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
Present participle for to quibble over trivial matters
Present participle for assume the existence of
Present participle for act
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Noun
▲
The act of imagining
shamming
simulation
bluffing
dissimulation
acting
cheating
concealment
counterfeiting
covering
dissembling
masking
pretence
UK
pretense
US
feigning
posture
affectation
posturing
charade
guise
veneer
pretension
semblance
faking
appearance
assumption
false front
outward appearance
false appearance
false show
make-believe
play-acting
illusion
masquerade
subterfuge
counterfeit
hoaxing
posing
dissemblance
show
facade
hoax
falsification
humbug
sham
front
bluff
façade
pose
false colours
a put-on
a put-up job
act
invention
deception
fabrication
deceit
trickery
artifice
falsehood
fakery
playacting
put-on
airs
disguise
self-deception
imagination
duplicity
cant
fraudulence
fraud
attitudinizing
deceitfulness
con
cover
ostentation
veil
insincerity
stall
shuffling
evasion
trick
gag
routine
excuse
pretext
imitation
misrepresentation
misstatement
mask
ruse
display
double-dealing
stunt
cloak
schtick
wile
falsity
lying
mendacity
dishonesty
treachery
hypocrisy
putting on an act
simulacrum
kidology
lack of veracity
false pretense
dumb act
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are
make-believe
fantasy
charade
daydreaming
dream
imagination
play-acting
pretence
UK
unreality
dreaming
fabrication
fancy
invention
romancing
delusion
illusion
masquerade
self-deception
disguise
dissimulation
fakery
game
pageant
playacting
pretense
US
pretension
pretentiousness
role-playing
sham
story
fairy tale
pose
front
act
facade
show
guise
façade
put-on
airs
feigning
posturing
simulation
deception
semblance
posing
subterfuge
hoax
veneer
veil
mask
artifice
falsification
posture
shamming
cloak
false front
trickery
affectation
pretext
fake
imitation
appearance
display
cover
faking
false display
bluff
counterfeit
acting
trick
ruse
deceit
falsehood
simulacrum
humbug
ostentation
insincerity
stall
con
profession
contrivance
red herring
face
smokescreen
air
cover-up
screen
dissemblance
false colours
wile
schtick
a put-on
a put-up job
false pretense
affectedness
vision
imaginativeness
ideation
ploy
impersonation
thought
reverie
fig leaf
snobbery
hokum
airs and graces
flight of fancy
visualization
US
imposture
going Hollywood
artificiality
pretensions
exaggeration
feint
smoke screen
inflation
imaginative faculty
snootiness
grandiosity
showing off
side
assumed manners
superciliousness
visualisation
UK
dress
uppishness
unnatural imitation
covering
putting on airs
dumb act
bluffing
hoaxing
assumption
demand
declaration
ambition
ambitiousness
aspiration
title
allegation
maintenance
likeness
farce
pantomime
parody
personation
color
US
mummery
colour
UK
revel
costume
masking
attitude
performance
false show
false appearance
showing
outward appearance
suggestion
claim
effect
chaser
sweet talk
soft soap
shuck and jive
hamming
phoney
UK
phony
US
dissimilation
stance
shuffling
routine
excuse
misrepresentation
double-dealing
stunt
gag
evasion
misstatement
mockery
travesty
mimicry
arrogance
conception
imaginative power
daydream
pipe dream
mind's eye
castle in Spain
creation of the brain
castle in the air
mental image
stratagem
play
hoodwinking
shift
expedient
gambit
mock attack
device
maneuver
US
dodge
snare
duck
blind
manoeuvre
UK
put-up job
machination
distraction
cheat
bait
dissembling
fraudulence
duplicity
cant
attitudinizing
fraud
deceitfulness
dishonesty
falsity
mendacity
treachery
lying
hypocrisy
originality
creativity
putting on an act
kidology
lack of veracity
speculation
inventiveness
creative thought
chimera
US
chimaera
UK
guile
codology
deviousness
cheating
cunning
craftiness
craft
deceptiveness
scam
falseness
chicanery
slyness
sting
snow job
dupery
flimflam
scheme
swindle
jiggery-pokery
hanky-panky
piousness
wiliness
funny business
monkey business
lie
intrigue
crookedness
foxiness
cunningness
guilefulness
crookery
cozenage
underhandedness
artfulness
untruthfulness
chicane
sanctimoniousness
perfidy
set-up
two-facedness
lurk
wheeze
prevarication
lip service
gyp
Tartufferie
empty talk
con trick
legerdemain
sophistry
imposition
hustle
spoof
management
sharp practice
perjury
fast one
fibbing
decoy
sanctimony
mendaciousness
perfidiousness
gimmick
leg-pull
pietism
rort
bunco
grift
Trojan horse
phoniness
duping
confidence trick
affected piety
Pharisaism
phoneyness
rig
schlenter
fetch
flanker
pharisaicalness
canard
lies
quackery
whitewash
equivocation
skulduggery
skullduggery
knavery
monkeyshines
telling stories
sell
jugglery
gamesmanship
jive
wiles
smoke and mirrors
fast shuffle
con game
every trick in the book
white lies
fiddle
disingenuousness
hypocritical talk
hypocritical behaviour
little white lies
prank
propaganda
faithlessness
forgery
swindling
fix
setup
double-crossing
subtleness
cageyness
subtlety
slickness
canniness
caginess
sneakiness
strategy
fakeness
distortion
shenanigans
burlesque
fiction
smoke
inveracity
joke
fourberie
tricks
obfuscation
scheming
bluster
bait and switch
sleight of hand
hocus-pocus
double-cross
shell game
attention-grabber
lure
deviation
disturbance
distractor
commotion
diversion
interruption
beguilement
blarney
betrayal
untruth
sophism
dirt
trickiness
boondoggle
treason
defraudation
disinformation
circumvention
juggling
trumpery
pomposity
hypocriticalness
tokenism
pecksniffery
tactic
porky
bragging
bravado
bombast
sleight
racket
fastie
sellout
bilk
mare's-nest
fallacy
ride
malarkey
hogwash
wrinkle
catch
trap
pork pie
shuck
crock
fib
idle boast
hypocritical statement
false piety
caper
cozening
defrauding
misleading
overreaching
ambidexterity
trapping
two-timing
ambidextrousness
entrapping
curve ball
false face
false clue
fool's errand
false trail
wild-goose chase
diversionary tactic
misleading clue
sham holiness
pious platitudes
snow
boast
braggadocio
jiving
refuge
plan
confidence game
dirty pool
dirty dealing
mere show
dirty trick
dirty work
crocodile tears
speciousness
false colors
disguising
counterfeiting
concealing
hiding
concealment
shrouding
veiling
pharisaism
suppression
camouflage
false virtue
affected superiority
glibness
irreverence
unctuousness
phariseeism
bigotry
casuistry
false profession
bad faith
double standard
more ❯
Noun
▲
Stage acting
performing arts
acting
amateur dramatics
assuming
characterization
depiction
drama
dramatics
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
enacting
enactment
feigning
hamming
histrionics
imitating
imitation
impersonation
improvisation
mime
mimicry
pantomime
performance
play acting
playing
portrayal
portraying
posing
posturing
pretence
UK
pretense
US
putting
rendition
seeming
showing off
simulating
stagecraft
stooging
theatre
UK
theater
US
theatricals
the stage
stage
performing
dramaturgy
theatrics
boards
thespianism
dramatic art
show business
thespian art
playing a role
show biz
appearing on stage
treading the boards
showmanship
farce
stage show
histrionic art
stage production
Broadway
stage performance
Thespian art
theatricality
exhibitionism
staginess
theatricalness
representation
staging
interpretation
acting out
showy behavior
personation
execution
melodramatics
accomplishment
presentation
entertaining
footlights
entertainment
theatrical
take
theatricalism
role
imposture
masquerade
pose
role-playing
plays
performance as
dramatic arts
troupe
histrionism
carrying out
account
version
commotion
fuss
entertainment industry
hysterics
excitement
limelight
piece
show
rendering
reading
spectacle
production
extravaganza
achievement
prosecution
commission
fulfilment
UK
appearance
discharge
personification
pursuance
implementation
perpetration
fulfillment
US
concert
event
exhibition
play-acting
act
gig
playacting
cabaret
attraction
theatrical performance
public performance
more ❯
Noun
▲
Display intended to excite admiration or applause
ostentation
flamboyance
flashiness
gaudiness
ostentatiousness
pretentiousness
showiness
swank
affectation
conspicuousness
display
exhibitionism
flash
flaunting
garishness
glitz
obtrusiveness
pretension
show
brashness
extravagance
kitschness
loudness
ornateness
theatricality
tinsel
boasting
flashness
flourish
glitziness
pageantry
parade
pomp
ritziness
self-advertisement
showing off
tastelessness
vaunting
vulgarity
window-dressing
array
bad taste
boast
brag
braggadocio
bragging
bravado
brazenness
demonstration
exhibition
fuss
magnificence
pageant
parading
pomposity
pompousness
put-on
shine
showoff
spectacle
splashiness
splendour
UK
splendor
US
splurge
swagger
swaggering
swankiness
vainglory
vaunt
false front
grandstand play
razzle-dazzle
tawdriness
pizzazz
US
pzazz
UK
fanfare
style
bravura
lavishness
resplendence
tackiness
splendidness
brilliance
glamour
UK
glitter
glamor
US
grandeur
panoply
glory
luridness
ceremony
showboat
frippery
dash
stylishness
vanity
dazzle
brassiness
grandiosity
verve
majesty
ceremoniousness
drama
panache
flair
cheapness
ceremonial
vigor
US
vigour
UK
stateliness
sumptuousness
confidence
colorfulness
state
opulence
gloriousness
brio
flamboyancy
ritual
jazziness
richness
grandness
radiance
commotion
razzmatazz
grossness
formality
éclat
kitsch
to-do
splash
lack of refinement
meretriciousness
pizazz
vividness
naffness
brightness
poor taste
chic
sparkle
grandezza
excess
crassness
energy
punch
spirit
solemnity
floridity
coarseness
harshness
boastfulness
appeal
crudeness
boldness
virtuosity
animation
hullabaloo
ballyhoo
stir
speciousness
success
effect
sentimentality
brouhaha
hype
hubbub
publicity
sensationalism
production
performance
nastiness
crudity
refinement
lustre
UK
élan
bother
ado
prancing
strut
roll
nobility
hoo-ha
showmanship
alarum
cheering
salute
elaboration
gorgeousness
imposingness
luster
US
trappings
splendiferousness
luxury
self-assurance
arrogance
trumpet blast
regalia
impressiveness
augustness
sublimeness
beauty
superbness
transcendency
greatness
transcendence
stupendousness
sublimity
resplendency
nobleness
elegance
distinction
luxuriousness
elevation
grace
loftiness
poshness
pulchritude
post
importance
exaltedness
marvelousness
spectacularity
pomp and circumstance
attire
apparatus
dress
turnout
get-up
raiment
insignia
garb
exhibit
exposure
scheme
example
sample
arrayal
revelation
presentation
act
manifestation
unfolding
layout
frame-up
pedantry
blaze
exposition
arrangement
panorama
expo
spread
for show
front
dignity
excellence
illustriousness
honour
UK
honor
US
eminence
brilliancy
exaltation
fineness
superiority
renown
prestige
class
royalty
lushness
courtliness
triumph
celebrity
exquisiteness
integrity
awesomeness
gravitas
gravity
standing
plushness
goodness
magnanimity
polish
quality
praise
kudos
immortality
reputation
sophistication
preeminence
poise
culture
propriety
worthiness
breeding
noblesse
kingliness
virtue
gentility
classiness
luxuriance
hauteur
purity
vastness
immensity
regalness
royalness
regality
seriousness
righteousness
morality
supremacy
status
affluence
costliness
gallantry
graciousness
prosperity
wealth
fashion
epicness
fulsomeness
expensiveness
voluptuousness
charm
handsomeness
stature
consequence
cachet
pre-eminence
suaveness
smoothness
gracefulness
merit
cultivation
peerlessness
self-possession
tastefulness
perfection
discernment
politeness
couth
urbanity
elegancy
rhythm
delicacy
felicity
symmetry
restraint
nicety
good taste
attractiveness
portentousness
gilt
power
finery
sight
rank
grandioseness
superlativeness
wonderfulness
solemnness
momentousness
earnestness
incorruptibility
blood
generosity
society
uprightness
birth
ennoblement
gentry
patricians
peerage
elite
glorification
effulgence
preciousness
great beauty
plushiness
fanciness
riches
queenliness
awe
effectiveness
powerfulness
pride
magnitude
upper class
ruling class
blue blood
high society
worldliness
courtesy
massiveness
hugeness
decency
civility
enormousness
immenseness
prominence
prodigiousness
size
mannerliness
sublime
bigness
honorableness
bulk
lure
captivation
draw
attraction
fascination
allure
tremendousness
civilization
US
amazingness
remarkableness
fabulousness
awesome
circumstance
breadth
expansiveness
sway
inclusiveness
might
superbity
amplitude
fame
exceptional nature
gentlemanliness
affability
manners
pull
luxe
diplomacy
cool
suavity
tact
taste
courteousness
genteelness
soft skills
civilisation
UK
great importance
drawing power
decorum
paramountcy
ascendancy
matchlessness
incomparability
finesse
respectability
regard
respectfulness
composure
primacy
prestigiousness
predominance
prepotency
noteworthiness
preponderancy
preponderance
dominance
smartness
cultivated beauty
modishness
comfort
correctness
lordliness
seemliness
modesty
honourability
etiquette
flawlessness
hedonism
sedateness
reserve
sobriety
character
station
prosperousness
faultlessness
perfectness
ethics
significance
worth
immaculateness
choiceness
impeccability
achievement
primeness
plenty
security
accomplishment
infallibility
excellency
exemplariness
soundness
lap of luxury
arete
supereminence
value
bed of roses
life of Riley
milk and honey
first-rateness
high standard
high quality
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Ostensibly employed, but wasting time
loafing
evading
shirking
slacking
apathetic
careless
indifferent
uninterested
Adjective
▲
Supposed but not necessarily real or true
hypothetical
theoretical
academic
speculative
assumed
supposed
suppositional
putative
conjectural
imagined
academical
conjectured
notional
presumed
theoretic
imaginary
unreal
assumptive
casual
concocted
conditional
conjecturable
contestable
contingent
debatable
disputable
doubtful
equivocal
guessed
indefinite
indeterminate
postulated
presumptive
presupposed
problematic
proposed
provisory
questionable
refutable
stochastic
suppositious
suspect
uncertain
unconfirmed
vague
made up
suppositive
apparent
abstract
alleged
purported
ideational
supposititious
hypothetic
likely
philosophical
asserted
tentative
intellectual
conceptual
ideal
impractical
reputed
unproven
inferential
ostensible
unsubstantiated
unproved
rumoured
UK
metaphysical
analytical
formularized
idealized
US
ideological
general
rumored
US
in theory
seeming
transcendental
idealised
UK
ostensive
evident
untested
imaginative
codified
formalistic
instanced
prima facie
logical
in the abstract
as a premise
transcendent
accepted
believed
claimed
inferred
reported
held
thought
understood
groundless
unfounded
unrealistic
professed
pedantic
problematical
unearthly
quixotic
surmised
based on guesswork
pure
expected
on paper
suspected
declared
said
anticipated
intelle
fanciful
fancied
illusory
paradigmatic
visionary
imagal
recondite
divinatory
recognized
US
acknowledged
unpractical
nonconcrete
experimental
hairy
dangerous
projected
conceptive
regarded
considered
intangible
immaterial
specious
non-practical
postulational
guesstimated
figured
guessing
unresolved
surmising
unpragmatic
imputed
reputative
irrelevant
estimated
deemed
soi-disant
non-technical
blue-sky
useless
invented
made-up
fictional
recognised
UK
commonly believed
commonly regarded
on a hunch
accounted
fundamental
higher
basic
on a long shot
so-called
reckoned
judged
ivory-tower
ivory-towered
fabled
suppository
gossiped
ivory-towerish
probable
stated
described
plausible
credible
granted
given
hypothesized
US
implicit
connoted
tacit
designated
suspicious
affirmed
believable
hypothesised
UK
avowed
dubious
averred
postulatory
pretended
predictable
possible
reasonable
prospective
odds-on
creditable
nominal
taken as known
counted on
taken for granted
conceivable
verisimilar
foreseeable
awaited
circumstantial
convincing
presumptuous
outward
superficial
semblant
perceived
surface
illusive
feigned
implicated
incriminated
involved
under suspicion
based
presumable
appearing
exterior
quasi-
obvious
clear-cut
unambiguous
clear
exhibited
manifest
notable
colorable
demonstrative
quasi
admitted
premised
to all appearances
just so
whispered
prevailing
told
broadcast
circulating
bruited
external
rife
going around
given out
all over town
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive
deceiving
deceptive
misleading
fallacious
false
specious
delusive
delusory
deceitful
beguiling
deluding
fraudulent
illusory
insincere
glib
dishonest
unreliable
cheating
cunning
devious
faithless
lying
untrustworthy
treacherous
double-dealing
duplicitous
two-faced
perfidious
crooked
sneaky
untruthful
shifty
underhanded
guileful
shady
underhand
Janus-faced
crafty
mendacious
tricky
unscrupulous
sly
disingenuous
unprincipled
roguish
knavish
disloyal
hypocritical
bent
dissembling
false-hearted
two-timing
double-faced
hollow-hearted
corrupt
double-crossing
rascally
traitorous
wily
designing
slippery
unfaithful
slick
inconstant
immoral
untrue
scheming
defrauding
sharp
rogue
fickle
dishonourable
UK
counterfeit
dishonorable
US
subtle
Machiavellian
foxy
recreant
adulterous
swindling
artful
back-stabbing
illegal
disreputable
wicked
fast
villainous
phoney
UK
unctuous
unethical
fake
pretended
phony
US
slim
unlawful
truthless
illicit
sneaking
unfair
criminal
dissimulating
shrewd
hoodwinking
artificial
feigned
backhanded
mean
base
dodgy
fibbing
scoundrelly
dirty
calculating
bluffing
undependable
malicious
conniving
mealymouthed
mealy
flighty
raffish
insidious
forsworn
clandestine
jive
double
foul
Punic
indirect
astucious
lip
Pecksniffian
snide
phoney-baloney
phony-baloney
left-handed
smart
fly
exploitative
backstabbing
clever
canny
bogus
sham
incorrigible
unregenerate
reprobate
shameless
unjust
trick
double dealing
extramarital
amoral
salty
ornery
hostile
snaky
shonky
malfeasant
wayward
prevaricating
misrepresenting
misstating
equivocating
wrong
inventing
falsifying
spurious
plausible
bum
seeming
serpentine
fishy
oblique
rascal
catchy
off
mock
imposturous
sinister
backbiting
elusive
adulterate
extracurricular
unchaste
adulterine
committing perjury
fornicating
moonlighting
speedy
improper
doubting
unbelieving
nasty
unloyal
unconverted
sceptical
UK
fluctuating
skeptical
US
dubious
wavering
unstable
capricious
changeful
changeable
fast and loose
puckish
impish
mischievous
despicable
arch
contemptible
low
dual
unsound
vile
treasonable
sordid
playful
devilish
unsporting
cheap
ignominious
falsehearted
venal
mythomaniac
malevolent
apostate
perjured
renegade
squalid
rotten
beggarly
shameful
cowardly
ungentlemanly
low-down
cheeky
waggish
nefarious
shabby
detestable
unpleasant
scurvy
paltry
worthless
naughty
execrable
unsportsmanlike
illegitimate
wretched
sleazy
grubby
abject
inequitable
unsportsmanly
ignoble
currish
scungy
sorry
deplorable
lousy
scummy
lame
pixieish
tricksy
scampish
ludic
pixy
pixie
teasing
prankish
coquettish
leprechaunish
elvish
ratty
scabby
low-minded
sportive
rakish
frolicsome
off-color
ill-gotten
against the rules
below the belt
not cricket
out of order
espiègle
furtive
astute
stealthy
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
feigning
affecting
faking
shamming
counterfeiting
simulating
assuming
dissembling
professing
alleging
dissimulating
putting on
acting
bluffing
claiming
falsifying
aspiring
impersonating
purporting
beguiling
cheating
cozening
deceiving
deluding
duping
fishing
fooling
fudging
hoodwinking
jazzing
jiving
letting on
making out
malingering
masquerading
misleading
passing for
stonewalling
suckering
whitewashing
claiming falsely
faking out
laying claim
passing off
passing oneself off as
shucking and jiving
putting up a front
acting as if
letting on that
making out that
making a pretence of
“I cannot
pretend
to understand the problem.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for engage in an imaginative game or fantasy
acting
imagining
impersonating
play-acting
supposing
bluffing
playing
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
imitating
masquerading
mimicking
playacting
playing at
portraying
purporting
representing
reproducing
putting on an act
assuming the role
making out like
making up
passing oneself off as
playing the part of
putting on airs
putting on a front
pantomiming
miming
faking
feigning
posing
shamming
simulating
counterfeiting
dissembling
fronting
making as if
putting on
“It was a huge adventure and we'd play silly games and
pretend
we were pirates on a quest for gold.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not
affecting
dissembling
dissimulating
posing
posturing
professing
kidding
shamming
faking it
making as if
putting it on
going through the motions
putting on a false front
feigning
faking
simulating
counterfeiting
acting
bluffing
assuming
putting on an act
putting on
passing for
masquerading
lying
falsifying
imitating
play-acting
forging
fabricating
disguising
making like
misrepresenting
putting up a front
playacting
inventing
prevaricating
playing
aping
doing
impersonating
giving the appearance of
playing possum
making a pretence of
acting like
going through the motions of
deceiving
equivocating
concocting
fibbing
devising
copying
fronting
making out
letting on
dressing up
making a show of
doing like
putting on a front
trumping up
passing off
making up
pretending to be
masking
hiding
concealing
veiling
cloaking
mocking
camouflaging
reproducing
misleading
malingering
misstating
pirating
mimicking
hatching
cheating
borrowing
playing at
taking off
coining
conjuring up
fudging
four-flushing
knocking off
acting out
shucking and jiving
personating
telling untruth
putting on airs
attitudinizing
doing a bit
telling a white lie
dittoing
creating out of thin air
making out like
doing an impression of
masquerading as
disguising yourself
posing as
passing oneself off as
hoaxing
obscuring
contriving
suppressing
adopting
suckering
forming
bearding
striking
pulling
dreaming up
posturing as
seeming to be
doing a number
aspiring to
swinging the lead
jiving
putting up a front of
taking on
making a show
making a pretense
presenting a false front
presenting a false face
laying it on thick
replicating
playing the part
letting on like
putting on a pretense
hamming
playing to the gallery
messing
mimeoing
defrauding
deluding
duping
minting
cloning
statting
making a pretense of
showboating
circulating bad money
going like
making money
grandstanding
purporting to be
disguising as
faking being
acting a part
passing yourself off
professing to be
assuming the character of
disguising oneself as
playing a role
taking the part of
assuming character
making like a
representing oneself as
passing as
masking as
parodying
caricaturing
falsely representing
burlesquing
purporting
spoofing
travestying
mirroring
favouring
UK
creating
favoring
US
stealing
suggesting
lifting
featuring
fencing
parroting
exaggerating
cribbing
resembling
giving appearance of
making show of
putting on act
putting on a false display
giving a false identity to
behaving affectedly
striking an attitude
assuming an attitude
taking off as
striking a pose
showing off
playing the part of
copping an attitude
sending up
glossing over
mocking up
monkeying
doing a take-off
doing an impression
doing likewise
following in footsteps
reflecting
repeating
playing a part
modeling after
patterning after
paralleling
trying to be like
parallelling
whitewashing
stonewalling
shrouding
pussyfooting
covering
covering up
putting up a smoke screen
more ❯
“They could
pretend
that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback.”
Verb
▲
Going through the motions of having
laying claim to
professing to have
purporting to have
making a claim to
going through the motions of having
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
fibbing
prevaricating
fabricating
lying
falsifying
equivocating
misrepresenting
faking
inventing
paltering
conning
deceiving
exaggerating
concocting
dissembling
dissimulating
jiving
feigning
perjuring
promoting
kidding
planting
shoveling
US
shovelling
UK
making up
telling stories
trumping up
stretching the truth
telling untruths
telling a lie
departing from the truth
inventing a story
making up a story
forswearing oneself
not telling the truth
telling a terminological inexactitude
telling a fib
creating fiction
speaking with forked tongue
telling a little white lie
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
pulling someone's leg
misleading
deluding
bluffing
hoodwinking
misinforming
hoaxing
misspeaking
misstating
misguiding
beguiling
duping
tricking
bulling
fudging
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
distorting
forswearing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
stringing along
concocting a story
faking it
having on
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
breaking promise
committing perjury
bearing false witness
throwing off the scent
putting up a front
putting on
sending on a wild goose chase
leading astray
BSing
telling a white lie
lacking candor
lying under oath
swearing falsely
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for appear to be or do something, especially falsely
purporting
claiming
professing
alleging
declaring
maintaining
seeming
appearing
asserting
meaning
signifying
affirming
averring
avouching
avowing
contending
expressing
impersonating
importing
indicating
insisting
intending
proclaiming
protesting
suggesting
warranting
betokening
conveying
denoting
implying
laying claim
personating
posing as
setting oneself up
alleging that one is
masquerading as
passing for
setting oneself up as
asserting that one is
implying that one is
maintaining that one is
passing oneself off as
pointing to
proclaiming that one is
representing oneself as
feigning the identity of
holding
stating
arguing
asseverating
upholding
swearing
attesting
advancing
representing
adducing
making out
pronouncing
moving
submitting
postulating
saying
challenging
charging
deposing
certifying
hinting
pleading
testifying
imputing
accusing
intimating
insinuating
giving evidence
recounting
offering
citing
presenting
reciting
bearing witness
laying
putting forward
putting forth
reasoning
establishing
pressing
syllogizing
connoting
giving the impression
predicating
making somebody believe
drawing conclusions
expostulating
defending
positing
propounding
opining
explaining
questioning
advocating
remonstrating
appealing
prevailing upon
making a case
making a case for
giving reasons for
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a show of
daydreaming
dreaming
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
imagining
playing
play-acting
bluffing
counterfeiting
enacting
faking
fancying
feigning
fooling
musing
playacting
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
envisioning
inventing
hallucinating
conceiving
conceiting
visualising
UK
seeing
ideating
picturing
envisaging
featuring
fantasying
visualizing
US
imaging
visioning
mooning
woolgathering
romanticizing
US
contriving
conjuring up
giving free rein to the imagination
tripping out
seeing visions
living in a dream world
building castles in air
indulging in fancy
romanticising
UK
indulging in wool-gathering
stargazing
staring into space
contemplating
having your head in the clouds
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
fooling
jesting
joking
kidding
acting
faking
feigning
shamming
bantering
chaffing
funning
gagging
japing
jiving
jollying
joshing
messing
quipping
teasing
wisecracking
yucking
yukking
counterfeiting
clowning about
clowning around
messing about
playing tricks
messing around
playing the fool
putting on an act
having on
mucking around
mucking someone about
winding up
ribbing
rallying
riding
slanging
razzing
roasting
playing
shucking
fooling around
fooling about
mocking
making fun of
ragging
deriding
ridiculing
taunting
laughing at
taking the mickey
twitting
poking fun at
needling
pulling one's leg
jeering at
scoffing at
jibing at
satirizing
US
ragging on
quizzing
poking mullock at
making sport of
goofing on
satirising
UK
jeering
taking the piss out of
slinging off at
making jokes about
chiacking
gibing
sending up
lampooning
pillorying
making a monkey of
flouting
making a monkey out of
scorning
jibing
baiting
guying
flouting at
scoffing
sneering at
smoking
treating with contempt
putting on
goading
pulling someone's leg
rotting
sneering
hazing
holding up to ridicule
parodying
spoofing
punning
heckling
mimicking
panning
scouting
picking on
skewering
poking borak at
playing a prank
heaping scorn on
putting down
shooting down
pulling someone's chain
annoying
harassing
treating contemptuously
burlesquing
tormenting
provoking
hoaxing
sledging
sallying
insulting
caricaturing
slamming
dissing
humiliating
pooh-poohing
showing up
retorting
playing a joke on
playing a practical joke
holding up to shame
telling jokes
making a fool of
setting up
pouring scorn on
joking with
playing a trick
playing a joke
telling stories
squibbing
girding
censuring
frazzling
raspberrying
remarking
staying
boning
ridging
gambolling
UK
frolicking
gamboling
US
knocking
tricking
larking
disparaging
disdaining
contemning
calling names
playing a practical joke on
buffooning
hooting
tearing to pieces
having a joke with
denigrating
detracting
slighting
dismissing
showing contempt for
showing contempt
vilifying
amusing
laughing
cracking wise
pranking
flipping
entertaining
diverting
thumbing nose at
putting someone on
rotting someone
taking a rise out of
getting a rise out of
louting
detracting from
making mischief
larking about
larking around
doing a number on
dumping on
playing a trick on
taking for a ride
leading up the garden path
having a joke on somebody
having a laugh
clowning
reveling
US
revelling
UK
fleering
cartooning
deflating
unmasking
exposing
cracking jokes
kidding around
poking fun
horsing around
making a laughing-stock
making someone a laughing stock
laughing out of court
running down
exposing to ridicule
poking borack
railing at
making a game of
playing the clown
making merry
plaguing
worrying
hassling
bothering
pestering
harrying
badgering
irritating
bedeviling
US
aggravating
bedevilling
UK
hectoring
vexing
importuning
gnawing
deviling
nudging
devilling
beleaguering
disturbing
tantalizing
US
dogging
snapping
sounding
tantalising
UK
leading on
flirting with
swipeing at
giving a hard time
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
bluffing
deceiving
fooling
tricking
conning
deluding
misleading
humbugging
duping
hoodwinking
bamboozling
beguiling
cheating
gulling
hoaxing
cozening
faking
lying
taking in
buffaloing
burning
catching
feigning
gaffing
gammoning
having
hornswoggling
juggling
kidding
misguiding
misinforming
shamming
snookering
snowing
spoofing
suckering
double-crossing
having on
betraying
blagging
buncoing
defrauding
faking out
illuding
jiving
scamming
shucking
stringing along
sucking in
passing off
psyching out
putting one over on
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
Verb
▲
Present participle for to quibble over trivial matters
pettifogging
altercating
argufying
avoiding
bickering
carping
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
chicaning
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
disputing
equivocating
evading
fencing
flip-flopping
hassling
niggling
nitpicking
prevaricating
shifting
sparring
squabbling
waffling
wrangling
arguing over
blowing hot and cold
catching at straws
having at it
hemming and hawing
hypercriticizing
making a big thing about
nit-picking
paralogizing
picking to pieces
putting up an argument
setting to
splitting hairs
talking back
brabbling
tiffing
brawling
arguing
fighting
controverting
rowing
jarring
quarrelling
UK
quarreling
US
scrapping
spatting
falling out
quibbling
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for assume the existence of
positing
advancing
postulating
assuming
predicating
presuming
propounding
submitting
asserting
hypothesising
UK
hypothesizing
US
putting forward
presupposing
proposing
stating
conceiving
concluding
conjecturing
considering
deeming
dreaming
expecting
fancying
feeling
gathering
imagining
judging
posing
premising
reckoning
regarding
speculating
suggesting
supposing
suspecting
taking
theorising
UK
theorizing
US
thinking
understanding
viewing
setting forth
swearing by
having a hunch
having sneaking suspicion
taking as a hypothesis
taking stock in
taking as gospel truth
guessing
believing
surmising
inferring
daresaying
suspicioning
deducing
divining
gleaning
taking for granted
hazarding a guess
guesstimating
saying
figuring
trusting
taking it
opining
daring say
sensing
taking as read
taking a stab
having a sneaking suspicion
taking a shot
holding
allowing
esteeming
hypothecating
implying
formulating a theory
forming a theory
depending
relying
risking assuming
construing
coming to the conclusion
venturing a guess
working out
counting on
banking on
jumping the gun
calculating
reasoning
accepting
brainstorming
dare-saying
granting
going out on a limb
sparking
cooking up
admitting
estimating
anticipating
determining
weening
ascertaining
forecasting
taking it as given
drawing the inference
foreseeing
maintaining
apprehending
predicting
foretelling
deciding
seeing
gauging
UK
gaging
US
having a feeling
doping out
thinking likely
perceiving
venturing
contemplating
calling
envisioning
reading
thinking it likely
adjudging
figuring out
foreknowing
hazarding
sizing up
discerning
finding
intuiting
prognosticating
extrapolating
projecting
envisaging
visualizing
US
visualising
UK
fathoming
prophesying
discovering
deriving
noticing
philosophising
UK
taking it as read
counting
soothsaying
getting the idea
crediting
calling it
evaluating
appraising
philosophizing
US
having the feeling
contending
seeing something coming
psyching out
observing
deliberating
realizing
US
hearing
learning
cogitating
wondering
prejudging
excogitating
doping
cerebrating
noting
reflecting
grasping
auguring
realising
UK
comprehending
jumping to conclusions
taking it for granted
presaging
averring
recognizing
US
picturing
detecting
vaticinating
rating
appreciating
previsioning
portending
making
getting
announcing
cognizing
savvying
recognising
UK
counting upon
forefeeling
foreboding
tumbling to
twigging
forewarning
computing
chewing over
prevising
calling the turn
beating one's brains
knowing
spaeing
auspicating
foreshadowing
building castles in air
hearing tell
predetermining
adumbrating
catching on to
making out
cottoning on to
setting store by
regarding as likely
summing up
assessing
hoping
compassing
looking upon
interpreting
requiring
taking something read
acknowledging
remarking
commenting
declaring
needing
airing
volunteering
mooting
taking something as given
taking as fact
resolving
solving
reputing
editorializing
US
choosing
selecting
soliciting
affirming
claiming
nominating
ratiocinating
syllogizing
telegraphing
musing
holding that
founding
drawing conclusions
drawing
accounting
omening
decoding
grokking
assimilating
weighing up
registering
deciphering
digging
thinking it likely that
having as one's opinion
postulating that
having an idea that
theorizing that
betting
editorialising
UK
weighing in
tipping
foreshowing
meditating
calling for
conceding
preconceiving
halsening
boding
forespelling
forespeaking
signifying
building
arguing
establishing
grounding
having a suspicion
fearing
seeing handwriting on wall
telling in advance
warning of
planning for
accusing
thinking it probable
disbelieving
depositing
hocking
pledging
mortgaging
hooking
making suppositions
reviewing
weighing
ruminating
studying
pondering
forming theories
scheming
falling for
regarding as
having a sneaking feeling
making guesses
swearing
beginning
introducing
starting
commencing
having doubts
harboring suspicion
having doubt
having a foreboding
taking for
classing as
estimating as
seeing as
viewing as
ruling
expressing an opinion
reading between lines
reflecting on
kicking around
running it up flagpole
rationalizing
US
rationalising
UK
contextualising
UK
valuating
espying
entertaining
smelling a rat
thinking probable
buying
planning
holding to be
taking to be
interpreting as
looking on as
foretasting
giving in earnest
stumbling on
contextualizing
US
feeling for
taking the view
pointing the finger at
feeling to be
imagining to be
calculating to be
believing to be
conceiving to be
entertaining the idea
lapping up
waiting for
allowing for
looking for
figuring on
seeing in the cards
planning on
bargaining on
preparing for
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