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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise; alleged reason |
| Synonyms: | affectation, alibi, appearance, bluff, cleanup, cloak, color*, coloring, cop-out, cover, cover story, cover-up, device, excuse, face, feint, fig leaf, front, guise, mask, masquerade, plea, ploy, pretense, red herring, routine, ruse, semblance, show, simulation, song and dance, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, veil* |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quibble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | objection, complaint |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cavil, criticism, dodge, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, hair-splitter, nicety, niggle, nit-picker, pretense, prevarication, protest, quiddity, quirk, shift, sophism, subterfuge, subtlety |
| Antonyms: | agreement, approval, concurrence |
| Main Entry: | semblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aura, appearance |
| Synonyms: | affinity, air, alikeness, analogy, aspect, bearing, comparison, facade, face, false front, feel, feeling, figure, form, front, guise, image, likeness, mask, mien, mood, pose, pretense, resemblance, seeming, show, showing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax, trick |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, fakery, false front, farce, feint, flimflam, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, imitation, impostor, imposture, jive, mock, mockery, pharisaism, phoniness, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, put-on, sell, smoke*, snow job, spoof, travesty, whitewash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | show |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false front; appearance given |
| Synonyms: | affectation, air, display, effect, face*, front, grandstand play, guise, illusion, impression, likeness, make-believe, ostentation, parade, pose, pretense, pretext, profession, seeming, semblance, sham, shine*, showboat, showing, simulacrum, splash* |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | title |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possession, laurel |
| Synonyms: | authority, championship, claim, commission, crest, crown, decoration, deed, degree, desert, dibs, due, entitlement, holding, justification, license, medal, merit, ownership, power, prerogative, pretense, pretension, privilege, proof, ribbon, right |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trickery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, joke |
| Synonyms: | bait and switch, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, dupery, fast shuffle, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, funny business, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense, quackery, razzle-dazzle, scam, sharp practice, shell game, shenanigans*, snow job, sting*, stunt, swindling, underhandedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subterfuge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheating |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheat, chicanery, deception, device, dishonesty, evasion, excuse, fraud, plan, ploy, pretense, refuge, ruse, scheme, sham, shift, sophistry, stratagem, trick |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness |
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