charade

Example Sentences

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Dr Bączyk-Bell said the process had been a "facetious charade" and it was a "false equivalence" to talk about hurt caused to those who had been theologically opposed to the idea of marriage equality.

From BBC

“Why, then? What was the point of this whole charade?”

From Literature

“Of course,” the social worker said, playing along with the charade.

From Literature

We had already spent the morning at an auction, where she bought up exotic trinkets to use in her charade as Madam L. L. Lucille.

From Literature

But ProPublica found that those claims were a charade: Lifesaving programs remained on the books, but the flow of money didn’t restart for months, if at all.

From Salon