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red herring
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Something designed to mislead to divert attention
Action to confuse or conceal
A gross or blatant lie
A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the storyline
Hopeless case
A person or thing used to mislead or lure someone into a trap
A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand
Side issue
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
The withholding, or non-disclosure, of information
Information that is incorrect or untrue
A remark or passage, especially in a play that is intended to be heard only by the audience
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Noun
▲
Something designed to mislead to divert attention
subterfuge
ploy
device
ruse
wile
artifice
deception
blind
trick
hoax
pretence
UK
pretense
US
expedient
bluff
manoeuvre
UK
sham
smokescreen
feint
cover
dodge
contrivance
machination
maneuver
US
distraction
bait
gimmick
commotion
decoy
deviation
distractor
disturbance
diversion
interruption
lure
attention-grabber
put-on
curve ball
diversionary tactic
false clue
false face
false trail
fool's errand
misleading clue
put-up job
smoke screen
wild-goose chase
stratagem
gambit
deceit
shift
imposture
bread and circuses
fake out
bread and games
scheme
play
con
plot
tactic
scam
hoodwinking
snare
duck
stall
mock attack
pretension
make-believe
pretext
cheat
fake
move
jig
game
stunt
wheeze
angle
shenanigans
curveball
game plan
twist
switch
scenario
booby trap
oldest trick in the book
cunning plan
flimflam
plan
fetch
fraud
sleight
shenanigan
knack
juggle
trickery
intrigue
method
strategy
swindle
racket
design
sting
means
measure
conspiracy
bunco
setup
course of action
chicanery
lurk
craft
con trick
set-up
cheating
sleight of hand
fastie
trap
hustle
sharp practice
grift
double-dealing
rort
line of action
craftiness
way
canard
tactics
confidence trick
programme
UK
duplicity
program
US
dishonesty
funny business
cabal
cunning
wangle
guile
artfulness
action
arrangement
wiles
plan of action
system
humbug
sell
flanker
fast one
step
schlenter
hanky-panky
deviousness
front
masquerade
codology
chicane
course
slyness
facade
tack
master plan
façade
fix
underhandedness
gamesmanship
dissimulation
snow job
misrepresentation
fast shuffle
maneuvering
US
evasion
shell game
manoeuvring
UK
blueprint
rig
fiddle
approach
idea
policy
finesse
kidology
instrument
brainchild
imposition
skulduggery
procedure
knavery
monkey business
frame-up
leg-pull
show
dirty trick
project
covin
charade
rip-off
skullduggery
manoeuvres
UK
machinations
fakery
con game
practice
scheming
tricks
resort
dirty work
maneuvers
US
jiggery-pokery
lie
enterprise
invention
recourse
resource
collusion
bunko
deceitfulness
spoof
fraudulence
caper
expediency
loophole
crookedness
prank
secret plan
manipulation
treachery
duping
stopgap
swindling
cunningness
refuge
legerdemain
jive
illusion
deceptiveness
mask
secret
formula
recipe
Trojan horse
posturing
jugglery
act
ruses
operation
guise
schemes
ploys
dupery
suggestion
semblance
stratagems
hocus-pocus
airs
venture
pose
catch
false show
false front
veil
little game
impersonation
playacting
intention
diddle
ground plan
proposition
shakedown
medium
deal
escapade
makeshift
wiliness
screen
cloak
delusion
ambush
take-in
unscrupulousness
whitewash
toils
swizzle
foxiness
substitute
blackmail
complot
initiative
frame
demarche
shuffle
bamboozlement
embezzlement
undertaking
wrong
option
path
tool
slant
plotting
projection
hokum
guilefulness
sellout
monkeyshines
line
methodology
sport
allurement
subtlety
planning
dissembling
quackery
crookery
sophistry
cozenage
subterfuges
fourberie
trickiness
disguise
sneakiness
canniness
management
smoke and mirrors
slickness
agency
cageyness
caginess
confidence game
subtleness
possibility
alternative
joke
roadmap
dirty pool
cleverness
appearance
cover-up
shady deal
falsehood
affectation
shrewdness
action plan
agenda
grand scheme
ingenuity
veneer
mode
display
song and dance
claim
face
proceeding
schtick
double-cross
feigning
false pretense
palace intrigue
effect
false display
false appearance
bait and switch
road map
outward appearance
grand design
camouflage
equivocation
antic
feat
distortion
irresistible bait
kicker
winning move
creation
shtick
charlatanry
improvisation
plant
jazz
baloney
swizz
insincerity
innovation
bit
scene
cozening
hoaxing
extortion
beguilement
horseplay
sanctimoniousness
hidden danger
concoction
clever move
exploitation
deed
roguery
jest
eye-catching novelty
coinage
sweet talk
soft soap
stealing
struggle
conniving
disingenuity
hypocrisy
contraption
appliance
cant
snow
jiving
wrinkle
subversion
falsity
movement
gin
every trick in the book
Tartufferie
one-upmanship
cover up
run around
falseness
pitfall
dealing
bill of goods
crafty designs
draft
US
draught
UK
crooked deal
temptation
hook
dragnet
inveiglement
enticement
seducement
snag
phoneyness
motion
double cross
mere show
bit of sharp practice
piece of deception
likeness
instrumentality
false colors
shifting
lies
propaganda
come-on
solution
secret scheme
perfidy
countermine
counterplot
treacherousness
disloyalty
devices
strategems
gambits
contrivances
artifices
dodges
empty talk
hypocritical talk
hypocritical behaviour
simulacrum
showing
simulation
air
falsification
profession
imitation
dumb act
dirty tricks
fit-up
quick fix
honeytrap
attempt
progress
effort
process
road
art
manner
technique
avenue
moves
proposal
plans
campaign
logistics
-gate
disposition
route
conduct
routine
mechanism
style
choice
regimen
kite
surreptitiousness
boondoggle
thought
furtiveness
praxis
exercise
behaviour
UK
protocol
set of tactics
submission
animus
purpose
game plans
battle plans
military science
treatment
behavior
US
drill
barratry
monkeyshine
crime
criminality
string
wire-pulling
double-crossing
villainy
workflow
pattern
foul play
name
cunning stratagems
modus operandi
mode of conduct
MO
method of working
mode of behaviour
red tape
bad deed
big picture
dirty deeds
net
hoky-poky
cruel act
snake oil
wooden nickel
knavishness
astuteness
dissemblance
web
mummery
goal-setting
personation
color
US
colour
UK
revel
masking
dirty dealing
quagmire
big plan
entanglement
morass
tanglement
quicksand
play-acting
meshes
bilk
ride
shuck
mare's nest
noose
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“However, they were uncertain as to whether it was the address of one of the suspects or a
red herring
.”
Noun
▲
Action to confuse or conceal
smoke screen
blind
camouflage
cover-up
decoy
diversion
mask
cloud of smoke
wall of smoke
cover
false colors
false front
masquerade
screen
front
disguise
veil
facade
pretence
UK
guise
façade
cloak
pretense
US
smokescreen
dissimulation
veneer
semblance
faking
show
charade
dress
act
deception
playacting
put-on
fig leaf
pose
shade
pretentiousness
pretension
covering
airs
make-believe
shroud
illusion
counterfeit
trickery
pageant
face
simulation
affectation
air
appearance
costume
concealment
coverup
subterfuge
masking
deceit
pretext
curtain
mantle
false appearance
hood
layer
wraps
image
outward appearance
smoke and mirrors
hiding
pall
display
blanket
coverture
penumbra
cope
fakery
feigning
artifice
gloss
posturing
misrepresentation
falsification
posture
impression
snivel
insincerity
double-dealing
shield
get-up
exterior
suppression
hoax
trick
window dressing
con
robe
imitation
schtick
feint
disguising
fabrication
stall
invention
routine
posing
shuffling
stunt
ostentation
garb
evasion
acting
hokum
false show
window-dressing
travesty
parody
false pretense
dumb act
surface
outfit
envelope
disguisement
attractive appearance
expression
look
cloud
scheme
presentation
shell
showing
outside
character
closeting
gloom
canopy
shadow
sheet
role
smoke-screen
whitewash
simulacrum
darkness
personality
figure
identity
part
column
cloth
wall
portrayal
impersonation
color
US
self
beard
personage
person
performance
persona
colour
UK
public face
assumed role
lurking
dissembling
lying in wait
ambush
duplicity
dishonesty
guile
hypocrisy
outward display
false colours
stashing
shamming
lying
secretion
cunning
dupery
piousness
deceptiveness
bluffing
crookery
cant
foxiness
wiliness
craftiness
bluff
cozenage
concealing
counterfeiting
cunningness
sham
craft
crookedness
cheating
fraud
guilefulness
deceitfulness
shrouding
veiling
codology
kidology
wile
caching
play-acting
obscuration
occultation
keeping hidden
more ❯
Noun
▲
A gross or blatant lie
cock and bull story
fairy story
fairy tale
concoction
fabrication
fake news
falsification
falsity
fiction
lie
made-up story
piece of fiction
trumped-up story
barefaced lie
deception
exaggeration
falsehood
fib
half-truth
little white lie
prevarication
untruth
white lie
alternative fact
flight of fancy
myth
pretence
UK
pretense
US
rumor
US
rumour
UK
story
yarn
departure from the truth
figment of the imagination
porky
pretext
ruse
sham
stratagem
tall story
tall tale
trickery
whopper
wile
bulldust
pork pie
porky pie
terminological inexactitude
fable
mendacity
invention
tale
taradiddle
tarradiddle
hogwash
cock-and-bull story
figment
fantasy
untruism
distortion
urban myth
false statement
urban legend
misrepresentation
deceit
figment of imagination
fraud
false report
line
kidology
phantasy
canard
bunk
crock
one for the birds
scandal
shaggy-dog story
detraction
fibbery
cover-up
half truth
feigning
fakery
misstatement
misinformation
disinformation
conspiracy theory
economy with the truth
gossip
dissimulation
perjury
propaganda
remarkable story
big lie
opus
artifact
US
jive
work
song and dance
artefact
UK
forgery
fake
jazz
claptrap
smoke
baloney
fancy
fish story
rant
romance
misjudgement
misjudgment
overstatement
amplification
emphasis
excess
embroidery
extravagance
enlargement
elaboration
exaltation
coloring
US
caricature
aggrandizement
US
figure of speech
hyperbolism
boasting
aggrandisement
UK
colouring
UK
untruthfulness
whitewash
fallacy
malarkey
magnification
pretension
hyperbole
inflation
overemphasis
pretentiousness
stretch
overestimation
purple prose
tall talk
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Noun
▲
A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the storyline
MacGuffin
Noun
▲
Hopeless case
wild-goose chase
bootless errand
fool's errand
lost cause
merry chase
merry dance
snipe hunt
vain attempt
wasted effort
wasted labor
waste of time
Noun
▲
A person or thing used to mislead or lure someone into a trap
decoy
lure
bait
attraction
ensnarement
enticement
inducement
allurement
temptation
trap
carrot
draw
snare
ambush
entrapment
pitfall
beard
blind
booster
camouflage
catch
chicane
chicanery
come-on
deception
distraction
facade
fake
front
imitation
inveiglement
nark
plant
pretence
UK
pretense
US
seducement
shill
stick
stoolie
trick
trickery
façade
blow off
drawing card
sitting duck
smoke screen
stool pigeon
incentive
turn-on
siren song
teaser
sweetener
bribe
jig
plug
fly
pull
magnet
invitation
call
interest
mousetrap
troll
blandishment
honeypot
coaxing
incitement
cajolery
hook
siren
gimmick
tantalization
charm
carrot and stick
ambuscade
stimulus
spur
motivation
surprise
ambushment
impetus
motive
persuasion
provocation
stimulant
douceur
catalyst
offer
set-up
honey trap
shot in the arm
reason why
encouragement
stimulation
goad
allure
impulse
crowd puller
urge
influence
consideration
exhortation
inspiration
momentum
drive
siren call
attention-grabber
attention draw
challenge
overture
bung
candy
motivating force
sugared pill
attention-getter
urging
reason
yeast
boost
prompting
insistence
premium
excuse
ground
determinant
convincing
stirring
goading
pushing
instigation
pressure
pressurization
US
rationale
purpose
inducing
persuading
cause
fascination
conversion
spring
focus
prodding
loadstone
lodestone
suasion
centre of attention
UK
incitation
crowd-pleaser
con
pressurisation
UK
needling
beseeching
focal point
reward
leader
desire
brainwash
twist
perk
clarion call
egging on
hard sell
sweet talk
snow job
soft soap
center of attention
US
kick up the backside
arm-twisting
net
web
waylaying
surprise attack
more ❯
Noun
▲
A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand
excursion
digression
aside
divagation
tangent
deviation
departure
excursus
parenthesis
discursion
diversion
divergence
wandering
deflection
detour
drifting
variation
difference
rambling
obiter dictum
divergency
footnote
note
episode
apostrophe
irrelevancy
incident
straying
meandering
foray
maundering
going off at a tangent
straying from the topic
straying from the point
losing one's thread
getting sidetracked
deviation from the subject
incidental remark
interpolation
runaround
branch
circumvention
circumnavigation
more ❯
Noun
▲
Side issue
irrelevance
detail
diversion
technicality
side issue
Noun
▲
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
pretext
excuse
pretence
UK
ploy
ruse
cover
device
grounds
pretense
US
alibi
simulation
stratagem
subterfuge
con
feint
routine
stall
cop-out
cover story
cover-up
ostensible reason
supposed grounds
alleged reason
false excuse
fig leaf
song and dance
Noun
▲
The withholding, or non-disclosure, of information
concealment
suppression
misprision
whitewash
covering up
dissimulation
front
hushing up
cover-up
keeping secret
fig leaf
smoke screen
wraps
veil of secrecy
censorship
silencing
hiding
disguise
withholding
keeping hidden
conspiracy of silence
squashing
mask
camouflage
veil
burial
secretion
hush-up
-gate
placing under wraps
seal of secrecy
stifling
banning
gagging
muzzling
smothering
outlawing
proscription
stonewalling
restriction
non-disclosure
facade
pretence
UK
façade
guise
pretense
US
masquerade
semblance
put-on
false front
veneer
cover
screen
smokescreen
cloak
deception
show
pose
blind
pretext
charade
act
playacting
pretension
airs
covering
pretentiousness
dress
feint
curtain
make-believe
faking
illusion
window-dressing
counterfeit
trickery
pageant
face
smoke and mirrors
scheme
masking
simulation
affectation
air
shroud
closeting
disguising
smoke-screen
visage
appearance
false colours
window dressing
beard
dissembling
disguisement
aspect
posture
more ❯
Noun
▲
Information that is incorrect or untrue
misinformation
lie
fabrication
fib
deception
falsity
falsification
prevarication
dishonesty
disinformation
calumny
inaccuracy
sophistry
spin
chicanery
distortion
gossip
misrepresentation
misstatement
propaganda
kidology
misreport
obfuscation
half-truth
trumped-up story
false information
false rumour
alternative fact
bending of the truth
false trail
bum steer
misleading information
fake news
falsehood
untruth
fiction
invention
mendacity
exaggeration
myth
perjury
sham
pretence
UK
pretense
US
white lie
porky
deceit
story
tale
guile
subterfuge
pretext
dissimulation
fable
bulldust
fraudulence
whopper
hyperbole
line
falseness
forgery
yarn
taradiddle
tarradiddle
evasion
backbiting
detraction
fairy tale
departure from the truth
flight of fancy
made-up story
tall tale
tall story
piece of fiction
terminological inexactitude
figment of the imagination
barefaced lie
little white lie
porky pie
fairy story
pork pie
disregard for the facts
cock and bull story
deviation from the truth
lies
economy with the truth
coloring
US
adulteration
twist
stretch
slant
mutilation
colouring
UK
false light
deceitfulness
not a true picture
spuriousness
untruthfulness
unreliability
more ❯
Noun
▲
A remark or passage, especially in a play that is intended to be heard only by the audience
aside
monolog
US
monologue
UK
soliloquy
apostrophe
throwaway
whispered remark
remark
undertone
whisper
casual remark
confidential remark
incidental remark
throwaway line
obiter dictum
parenthetic remark
stage whisper
by-play
confidential statement
parenthetical remark
mumbled comment
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