Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: falsehood, affected show; cover
Synonyms:
act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing*, dumb act, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, schtick, semblance, sham*, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile
Antonyms:
honesty, openness, reality, truth
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third EditionCopyright © 2008 by the Philip Lief Group.
