put up a front

Strong matches

• act
• adopt
• assume
• bluff
• contrive
• counterfeit
• fake
• feign
• playact
• sham
• simulate

Weak matches

• aspire to
• do a bit
• lay it on thick
• make out like
• put on
• take on

Strongest matches

• alter
• belie
• camouflage
• cloak
• conceal
• cover up
• deceive
• dress up
• gloss over
• hide
• mask
• misrepresent
• obscure

Strong matches

• affect
• age
• antique
• assume
• beard
• change
• color
• counterfeit
• cover
• dissemble
• dissimulate
• fake
• falsify
• feign
• front
• fudge
• garble
• masquerade
• muffle
• obfuscate
• pretend
• redo
• screen
• secrete
• sham
• shroud
• simulate
• varnish
• veil
• whitewash

Weak matches

• doctor up
• make like
• make up
• put on a false front
• put on a front
• put on an act
• put up a smokescreen
• touch up
• wear cheaters

Strong matches

• affect
• camouflage
• cloak
• conceal
• counterfeit
• cover
• dissimulate
• fake
• falsify
• feign
• hide
• mask
• pass
• pussyfoot
• sham
• shroud
• signify
• simulate
• stonewall
• whitewash

Weak matches

• cover up
• double-talk
• doublespeak
• dress up
• four-flush
• let on
• make like
• play possum
• put on a false front
• put on a front
• put on an act
• put up a smokescreen
• shuck and jive

Strong matches

• act
• affect
• assume
• bluff
• counterfeit
• devise
• dissemble
• dissimulate
• fabricate
• fake
• forge
• imagine
• imitate
• invent
• play
• sham
• simulate
• stonewall

Weak matches

• do a bit
• four-flush
• give appearance of
• make show of
• phony up
• play possum
• put on
• put on act

Strongest matches

• deceive
• mislead
• misrepresent
• promote

Strong matches

• beguile
• BS
• bull
• con
• concoct
• delude
• dissemble
• dissimulate
• distort
• dupe
• equivocate
• exaggerate
• fabricate
• fake
• falsify
• fib
• forswear
• frame
• fudge
• invent
• malign
• misguide
• misinform
• misspeak
• misstate
• overdraw
• palter
• perjure
• pervert
• phony
• plant
• prevaricate
• snow
• soft-soap
• victimize

Weak matches

• be untruthful
• bear false witness
• break promise
• go back on
• make believe
• misinstruct
• put on
• string along

Strongest match

• affect

Strong matches

• act
• attitudinize
• feign
• grandstand
• impersonate
• masquerade
• peacock
• playact
• posture
• profess
• purport
• sham

Weak matches

• make believe
• make out like
• pass off
• put on airs
• show off
• strike an attitude
• take off as

Strong matches

• affect
• attitudinize
• display
• fake
• masquerade
• playact
• pose

Weak matches

• do a bit
• do for effect
• fake it
• make a show
• pass for
• pass off
• put on airs
• show off

Strongest matches

• assume
• bluff
• feign
• fool
• impersonate
• profess
• purport
• put on

Strong matches

• act
• affect
• allege
• beguile
• cheat
• claim
• counterfeit
• cozen
• deceive
• delude
• dissemble
• dissimulate
• dupe
• fish
• fudge
• hoodwink
• jazz
• jive
• malinger
• masquerade
• mislead
• sham
• simulate
• stonewall
• sucker
• whitewash

Weak matches

• be deceitful
• be hypocritical
• claim falsely
• fake out
• lay claim
• let on
• make out
• pass off
• pass oneself off as

Strong matches

• act
• affect
• ape
• assume
• bluff
• copy
• counterfeit
• fake
• feign
• imitate
• invent
• lie
• mislead
• mock
• pretend
• simulate
• sucker

Weak matches

• do a number
• fake it
• make like
• play possum
• put on
• shuck and jive

Strongest matches

• cloak
• enclose
• enfold
• shroud

Strong matches

• beard
• blanket
• camouflage
• conceal
• cover
• curtain
• dim
• disguise
• drape
• enshroud
• envelop
• finesse
• invest
• launder
• mantle
• mask
• obscure
• screen
• secrete
• shield
• stonewall
• whitewash
• wrap

Weak match

• cover up