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What is another word for
putting on an act
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Verb
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to perform or posture in an exaggerated manner, seeking attention and approval
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
Present participle for to play or act out a (usually imaginary) role
Present participle for to give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information
Present participle for to act out a character, typically as a performance
Present participle for to behave in a manner intended to impress
(
masquerade as
)
Present participle for to pretend to be someone one is not
Noun
A false front or appearance, or the act of putting one up
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
feigning
pretending
faking
shamming
posing
simulating
bluffing
hamming
inventing
play-acting
putting it on
making up
letting on like
playing possum
playing the part
playing to the gallery
putting on a pretense
affecting
dissembling
assuming
imitating
acting
counterfeiting
professing
playing
aping
copying
doing
fabricating
playacting
mirroring
reproducing
lying
misrepresenting
parroting
disguising
concocting
prevaricating
equivocating
pirating
conjuring up
doing a take-off
mocking up
acting out
knocking off
deceiving
cheating
acting like
creating
suggesting
exaggerating
giving the appearance of
putting on
resembling
featuring
going through the motions of
taking off
passing for
doing like
dissimulating
posturing
masquerading
forging
devising
fronting
kidding
malingering
messing
putting on airs
putting up a front
making a pretence of
four-flushing
playing at
making a show of
doing a bit
going through the motions
putting on act
giving appearance of
making show of
putting on a false display
more ❯
“She decided to
put on an act
and pretended to enjoy the play, despite being bored out of her mind.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
pretending
dissembling
dissimulating
making out
letting on
feigning
shamming
faking
simulating
acting
bluffing
affecting
posing
masquerading
posturing
disguising
putting on a front
play-acting
counterfeiting
assuming
professing
putting on
putting up a front
putting it on
putting on a false front
passing for
masking
hiding
concealing
veiling
lying
cloaking
fronting
faking it
dressing up
camouflaging
going through the motions
deceiving
obscuring
falsifying
suppressing
whitewashing
covering up
putting up a smoke screen
hoaxing
kidding
pussyfooting
playing possum
four-flushing
shrouding
misleading
making like
shucking and jiving
covering
stonewalling
putting on airs
adopting
taking on
striking
playacting
pulling
screening
misrepresenting
hushing up
keeping quiet about
airbrushing
keeping dark
downplaying
keeping secret
sweeping under the rug
varnishing
extenuating
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
de-emphasizing
veneering
minimising
UK
keeping a lid on
secreting
sweeping under the carpet
minimizing
US
drawing a veil over
sugarcoating
making a pretense
presenting a false face
bearding
presenting a false front
making a show
making a pretence of
giving the appearance of
going through the motions of
making a show of
fabricating
contriving
staging
spoofing
devising
scheming
concocting
manufacturing
constructing
orchestrating
claiming
designing
impersonating
seeming to be
posturing as
pretending to be
purporting
making as if
claiming falsely
faking out
passing off
passing oneself off as
imitating
playing
forging
enveloping
inventing
malingering
blanketing
swathing
messing
belying
clouding
enshrouding
curtaining
cocooning
surrounding
occulting
wrapping
blotting out
papering over
playing at
doing a bit
making show of
putting on act
giving appearance of
putting on a false display
more ❯
“She really knows how to
put on an act
when it comes to appearing innocent, even though we all know she's guilty.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to perform or posture in an exaggerated manner, seeking attention and approval
playing to the gallery
performing
posturing
hamming it up
playing to the crowd
playing up
showing off
playing to the cheap seats
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
fooling
jesting
joking
kidding
acting
faking
feigning
pretending
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
having on
mucking around
mucking someone about
winding up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to play or act out a (usually imaginary) role
pretending
playacting
acting
impersonating
playing
portraying
imitating
masquerading
mimicking
representing
reproducing
play-acting
playing at
making out like
passing oneself off as
playing the part of
assuming the role
putting on airs
feigning
posturing
faking
shamming
posing
purporting
showboating
affecting
simulating
attitudinizing
grandstanding
counterfeiting
professing
dissembling
striking a pose
copping an attitude
behaving affectedly
showing off
striking an attitude
passing off
assuming an attitude
putting up a front
disguising yourself
taking off as
fronting
hamming
hamming it up
making as if
putting on
putting it on
making up
putting on a front
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information
misinforming
deceiving
fooling
deluding
hoodwinking
misleading
misguiding
beguiling
bluffing
conning
duping
misdirecting
bamboozling
disinforming
hoaxing
misstating
prevaricating
snookering
tricking
cozening
suckering
gaffing
hornswoggling
lying
misrepresenting
snowing
buffaloing
burning
distorting
fabricating
gammoning
having
humbugging
juggling
perverting
propagandising
UK
propagandizing
US
spoofing
catching
gulling
mousetrapping
leading astray
lying to
taking in
covering up
having on
stringing along
faking out
leading on
putting on
sucking in
doing a number on
pulling one's leg
putting on false front
taking for a ride
giving wrong information to
leading down the garden path
leading up the garden path
putting on the wrong track
putting up smoke screen
giving someone a bum steer
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
throwing off the scent
sending on a wild goose chase
wrong steering
scamming
swindling
bilking
hosing
shafting
illuding
inveigling
cheating
fudging
betraying
rooking
defrauding
bunking
outfoxing
kidding
outwitting
overreaching
baiting
victimising
UK
jiving
ensnaring
enmeshing
entangling
imposing on
victimizing
US
ripping off
roping in
putting one over on
double-crossing
giving the wrong impression
playing trick on
pulling a swifty on
pulling a fast one on
leading up garden path
diddling
stiffing
flimflamming
stinging
doing
fleecing
finagling
mulcting
screwing
euchring
fiddling
hustling
shortchanging
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
beating
entrapping
skinning
buncoing
bleeding
taking advantage of
sticking
shorting
chousing
plucking
reaming
taking to the cleaners
swizzling
squeezing
skunking
selling a pup to
thimblerigging
shaking down
nobbling
doing in
chicaning
seducing
outmaneuvering
US
exploiting
outmanoeuvring
UK
sandbagging
milking
befooling
making a fool of
luring
juking
stitching up
selling
circumventing
doing the dirty on
embezzling
foxing
outsmarting
trapping
clipping
taking
faking
baffling
bewildering
gazumping
enticing
tempting
setting up
outdoing
outslicking
pulling a fast one
selling down the river
double-dealing
outjockeying
defeating
topping
crossing
outthinking
goldbricking
gouging
falsifying
wheedling
robbing
shucking
outguessing
outgeneraling
outgeneralling
capping
swizzing
confusing
jipping
worsting
getting the better of
two-timing
screwing over
stealing a march on
alluring
figuring out
selling a pup
inducing
soliciting
jockeying
outplaying
coaxing
cajoling
backstabbing
hooking
manipulating
pulling
decoying
framing
thwarting
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
trimming
disappointing
steering
equivocating
failing
catching out
jerking around
gaslighting
running a game on
playing for a sucker
pulling fast one
perjuring
selling out
forswearing
four-flushing
running rings round
making rings round
double dealing
doing out of
stabbing in the back
letting down
stretching the truth
playing someone false
breaking faith with
committing perjury
doing someone in the eye
bearing false witness
selling a bill of goods to
deking
shamming
blagging
finessing
lulling
playing
corrupting
using
stumping
psyching out
pilfering
throwing
crossing up
playing away
playing games with
playing joke on
taking for ride
beating out of
taking to cleaners
overcharging
playing a trick on
extorting
stealing
fixing
play-acting
besting
buttying
stringing on
pulling wool over
dallying
trifling
swaying
contriving
making a sucker of
toying
handing a line
playing for a fool
poking borack
wantoning
hocus-pocusing
wangling
impressing
bleeding dry
pulling someone's leg
wiling
rushing
suckering into
doing number on
flamming
slipping something over on
sweet-talking
cribbing
blenching
belirting
rogueing
roguing
lirting
selling a bill of goods
doing someone dirty
biasing
US
biassing
UK
going back on
tolling
stepping out
fascinating
persuading
toying with
trifling with
dallying with
playing with
snaring
short-changing
splitting
making use of
touting
ensorcelling
lying under oath
swearing falsely
playing fast and loose with
giving the runaround
sending on a wild-goose chase
playing dirty
stretching the rules
bending the rules
pulling something funny
stacking the cards
hitting below the belt
taking out
breaking the rules
giving bum steer
coming on
stage-managing
pulling strings
playing games
pulling wires
drawing
twisting around your little finger
making a monkey of
making somebody look an idiot
making a monkey out of
inviting
bribing
catfishing
trolling
outperforming
coming on to
fibbing
sweeping off feet
dissimulating
going one better than
exaggerating
dissembling
pretending
misspeaking
bulling
misinstructing
overdrawing
paltering
telling an untruth
telling a falsehood
concocting a story
departing from the truth
telling a lie
telling stories
faking it
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
forswearing oneself
making up a story
not telling the truth
breaking promise
telling untruths
BSing
telling a white lie
inventing a story
telling a terminological inexactitude
lacking candor
putting up a front
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act out a character, typically as a performance
characterising
UK
characterizing
US
acting
playing
performing
impersonating
doing
imitating
interpreting
personating
portraying
enacting
miming
mimicking
personifying
burlesquing
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
parodying
playing a part
acting out
playing act
posing as
appearing
emoting
representing
stooging
strutting
rehearsing
starring
mugging
taking part
hamming
going over
hamming it up
playing part
playing role
doing a turn
treading the boards
going on
making debut
playing gig
masquerading as
putting it over
bringing down the house
playing the part of
depicting
presenting
executing
playacting
staging
rendering
producing
mounting
showing
putting on
giving
role-playing
playing out
starring as
play-acting
featuring
appearing as
taking the role of
taking the part of
costarring
working out
working through
imagining
manifesting
exhibiting
displaying
evincing
headlining
achieving
appearing in
reenacting
adapting
coming on stage
coming onstage
taking part in
imaging
picturing
improvising
offering
carrying
directing
being
opening
strutting one's stuff
entertaining
appearing on stage
pretending to be
carrying out
playing a gig
reading a part
acting the part of
putting before the public
bringing out
figuring in
standing out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to behave in a manner intended to impress
strutting
showing off
showboating
attitudinizing
posing
swaggering
swanking
flourishing
hotdogging
parading
behaving affectedly
putting on airs
striking an attitude
copping an attitude
playing to audience
striking a pose
giving oneself airs
swaggering around
advertizing oneself
drawing attention to oneself
making a spectacle of
hot dogging
grandstanding
posturing
playing to the crowd
playing to the gallery
impressing
attracting attention
prancing
flaunting it
skylarking
flouncing
flaunting
making a splash
acting up
playing to the cheap seats
turning heads
making your presence felt
getting noticed
making one's presence felt
hams up
displaying
swashing
lording
swashbuckling
brandishing
doing something for effect
trying to attract attention
making a show
bigfooting
behaving confidently
lording it
walking heavy
looking big
parading one's wares
Verb
▲
(
masquerade as
)
Present participle for to pretend to be someone one is not
masquerading
impersonating
playing
imitating
personating
playacting
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
mimicking
acting
aping
parodying
mocking
caricaturing
representing
copying
satirizing
US
burlesquing
spoofing
travestying
enacting
dittoing
lampooning
mirroring
monkeying
embodying
satirising
UK
taking off
making fun of
dressing as
doubling as
sending up
feigning
affecting
shamming
assuming
putting on
setting oneself up as
assuming the identity of
feigning the identity of
dissembling
bluffing
giving the appearance of
assuming the role of
going through the motions of
making out
playing at
dissimulating
reflecting
repeating
falsifying
doing an impression
doing likewise
following in footsteps
modeling after
patterning after
playing a part
trying to be like
doing like
purporting
kidding
misleading
putting it on
faking it
putting on a front
claiming falsely
faking out
putting up a front
shucking and jiving
going through the motions
putting on a false front
describing as
presenting as
claiming to be
more ❯
Noun
▲
A false front or appearance, or the act of putting one up
pretense
US
pretence
UK
acting
faking
feigning
simulation
act
pose
posing
posture
posturing
attitudinizing
simulacrum
play-acting
make-believe
self-deception
charade
masquerade
front
facade
show
guise
façade
sham
airs
affectation
dissimulation
put-on
display
pretension
playacting
fakery
shamming
semblance
disguise
air
mask
subterfuge
fake
veneer
appearance
veil
cloak
bluff
pretentiousness
humbug
false display
false front
affectedness
attitude
artificiality
fabrication
hoax
artifice
counterfeit
snobbery
hokum
inflation
grandiosity
superciliousness
ostentation
insincerity
pretensions
falsification
exaggeration
side
imitation
dissemblance
illusion
snootiness
uppishness
pretending
a put-on
a put-up job
airs and graces
assumed manners
going Hollywood
showing off
unnatural imitation
putting on airs
performance
stance
feint
stall
con
chaser
hamming
phoney
UK
ploy
phony
US
dissimilation
deception
sweet talk
soft soap
ruse
shuck and jive
cover
screen
fantasy
daydreaming
impersonation
imposture
mummery
mien
masking
personation
color
US
trick
colour
UK
revel
role
mannerism
delusion
carriage
stand
invention
cover-up
false show
dreaming
pageant
fancy
imagination
unreality
arrogance
bluffing
hoaxing
assuming a front
false colours
putting on a front
more ❯
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putting on an act
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