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Verb
Present participle for act a part
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Playing to the cheap seats
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 alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
Present participle for to behave in a manner intended to impress
Noun
A false front or appearance, or the act of putting one up
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Present participle for act a part
bluffing
faking
feigning
hamming
inventing
letting on like
making up
play-acting
playing possum
playing the part
posing
pretending
putting it on
shamming
simulating
playing to the gallery
putting on a pretense
acting
playacting
counterfeiting
dissembling
imitating
affecting
faking it
playing
professing
masquerading
reproducing
posturing
impersonating
making out like
putting on
purporting
putting on airs
going through the motions
portraying
hamming it up
making as if
mimicking
assuming the role
putting on a front
fronting
striking a pose
showboating
striking an attitude
passing off
assuming an attitude
putting up a front
disguising yourself
copping an attitude
attitudinizing
behaving affectedly
grandstanding
showing off
playing the part of
taking off as
assuming
aping
copying
doing
fabricating
mirroring
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
resembling
featuring
going through the motions of
taking off
passing for
doing like
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
dissembling
pretending
dissimulating
letting on
making out
feigning
shamming
faking
simulating
acting
bluffing
affecting
posing
masquerading
posturing
disguising
putting on a front
counterfeiting
assuming
professing
putting on
putting up a front
putting on a false front
passing for
masking
hiding
concealing
veiling
lying
cloaking
fronting
dressing up
camouflaging
play-acting
deceiving
obscuring
falsifying
suppressing
whitewashing
covering up
putting up a smoke screen
putting it on
hoaxing
kidding
pussyfooting
playing possum
four-flushing
shrouding
misleading
making like
shucking and jiving
covering
stonewalling
faking it
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
going through the motions
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 ❯
Verb
▲
Playing to the cheap seats
playing to the gallery
hamming it up
performing
playing to the crowd
playing up
posturing
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
personating
doing
posing as
acting out
parodying
enacting
masquerading as
burlesquing
performing
interpreting
miming
personifying
characterizing
US
faking
representing oneself as
purporting to be
pretending to be
playing a part
playing a role
passing off
taking the part of
doing an impression of
dramatising
UK
acting like
characterising
UK
making like
acting a part
dramatizing
US
assuming character
professing to be
playing act
simulating
passing as
making as if
posturing
disguising as
disguising oneself as
faking being
disguising yourself
attitudinizing
passing yourself off
masking as
making like a
assuming the character of
passing for
posing
appearing
going over
hamming it up
going on
making debut
playing gig
emoting
taking part
putting it over
hamming
stooging
rehearsing
playing part
playing role
mugging
doing a turn
treading the boards
bringing down the house
strutting
starring
aping
caricaturing
travestying
satirizing
US
mocking
lampooning
spoofing
monkeying
taking off
copying
mirroring
satirising
UK
dressing as
dittoing
sending up
making fun of
doubling as
embodying
feigning
affecting
shamming
assuming
putting on
setting oneself up as
reflecting
repeating
describing as
presenting as
claiming to be
doing like
doing likewise
modeling after
patterning after
dissembling
doing an impression
following in footsteps
assuming the identity of
feigning the identity of
trying to be like
bluffing
dissimulating
falsifying
making out
purporting
kidding
misleading
putting it on
faking it
claiming falsely
faking out
putting up a front
shucking and jiving
going through the motions
putting on a false front
putting on a front
affecting the role of
giving the appearance of
assuming the role of
going through the motions of
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
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
shortchanging
entrapping
beating
buncoing
skinning
taking advantage of
bleeding
chousing
sticking
shorting
plucking
swizzling
taking to the cleaners
reaming
selling a pup to
squeezing
skunking
thimblerigging
shaking down
nobbling
doing in
seducing
chicaning
exploiting
outmaneuvering
US
outmanoeuvring
UK
sandbagging
luring
milking
stitching up
befooling
making a fool of
doing the dirty on
embezzling
selling
juking
circumventing
foxing
outsmarting
trapping
taking
clipping
faking
gazumping
double-dealing
baffling
bewildering
enticing
selling down the river
setting up
tempting
pulling a fast one
two-timing
crossing
outslicking
gouging
goldbricking
outdoing
wheedling
swizzing
outjockeying
robbing
shucking
outthinking
defeating
topping
stealing a march on
falsifying
outguessing
outgeneraling
outgeneralling
capping
jipping
worsting
confusing
screwing over
getting the better of
selling a pup
figuring out
playing someone false
breaking faith with
failing
alluring
letting down
jockeying
coaxing
cajoling
backstabbing
hooking
manipulating
inducing
pulling
framing
soliciting
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
thwarting
catching out
trimming
decoying
outplaying
four-flushing
disappointing
jerking around
gaslighting
running a game on
steering
selling out
playing for a sucker
double dealing
pulling fast one
perjuring
equivocating
doing out of
forswearing
running rings round
stretching the truth
stabbing in the back
committing perjury
bearing false witness
making rings round
selling a bill of goods to
doing someone in the eye
corrupting
leading off
trolling
doing someone dirty
deking
shamming
slipping something over on
stretching the rules
bending the rules
pulling something funny
stacking the cards
hitting below the belt
blagging
stumping
finessing
pulling in
playing
using
lulling
psyching out
pilfering
outperforming
playing games with
crossing up
playing away
overcharging
throwing
playing joke on
taking for ride
beating out of
taking to cleaners
extorting
stealing
fixing
ruining
frustrating
foiling
playing a trick on
playing dirty
swaying
contriving
play-acting
buttying
making a sucker of
poking borack
dallying
trifling
catfishing
toying
handing a line
wantoning
pulling wool over
wangling
impressing
bleeding dry
suckering into
doing number on
flamming
going one better than
playing for a fool
pulling someone's leg
selling a bill of goods
hocus-pocusing
biasing
US
biassing
UK
rushing
sweet-talking
going back on
cribbing
blenching
belirting
rogueing
roguing
lirting
stepping out
splitting
persuading
lying under oath
swearing falsely
toying with
trifling with
dallying with
playing with
making use of
short-changing
playing fast and loose with
giving the runaround
sending on a wild-goose chase
taking out
breaking the rules
giving bum steer
snaring
stage-managing
pulling strings
playing games
pulling wires
drawing
twisting around your little finger
wiling
coming on
tolling
touting
shilling
fascinating
distracting
ensorcelling
making a monkey of
making somebody look an idiot
making a monkey out of
inviting
bribing
coming on to
besting
fibbing
sweeping off feet
dissimulating
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
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
falsifying
altering
distorting
faking
forging
perverting
doctoring
misrepresenting
counterfeiting
fudging
warping
changing
cooking
fabricating
adulterating
garbling
inventing
misstating
belying
bending
coloring
US
corrupting
debasing
embroidering
manipulating
massaging
misinterpreting
misrelating
misreporting
slanting
tampering with
twisting
colouring
UK
embellishing
vitiating
conning
contorting
contravening
deaconing
deceiving
equivocating
exaggerating
fibbing
fiddling
fixing
four-flushing
glossing
lying
misquoting
paltering
prevaricating
promoting
rigging
salting
traversing
dressing up
faking it
framing up
trumping up
putting a spin on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to behave in a manner intended to impress
showing off
showboating
attitudinizing
posing
strutting
swaggering
swanking
flourishing
hotdogging
parading
behaving affectedly
putting on airs
striking an attitude
copping an attitude
striking a pose
giving oneself airs
swaggering around
advertizing oneself
drawing attention to oneself
making a spectacle of
hot dogging
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
front
facade
show
guise
façade
charade
masquerade
airs
affectation
sham
put-on
display
dissimulation
shamming
disguise
semblance
pretension
playacting
air
mask
subterfuge
fake
fakery
veneer
appearance
veil
cloak
bluff
humbug
false display
false front
affectedness
attitude
artificiality
pretentiousness
hoax
artifice
counterfeit
snobbery
hokum
inflation
grandiosity
superciliousness
ostentation
insincerity
pretensions
falsification
exaggeration
side
imitation
dissemblance
snootiness
uppishness
a put-on
a put-up job
airs and graces
assumed manners
going Hollywood
showing off
unnatural imitation
putting on airs
performance
stance
fabrication
feint
stall
con
chaser
hamming
phoney
UK
ploy
phony
US
dissimilation
deception
sweet talk
soft soap
ruse
shuck and jive
cover
screen
impersonation
imposture
mummery
mien
costume
masking
personation
color
US
trick
colour
UK
revel
role
mannerism
carriage
stand
false show
cover-up
arrogance
bluffing
pretending
illusion
hoaxing
assuming a front
false colours
putting on a front
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