ruse, farce, sham, travesty, subterfuge, pretense, smokescreen, fig leaf, ploy, posturing, illusion, sideshow, machinations, spectacle, falsehood, shenanigan, red herring, chicanery, mockery, duplicity, rigmarole, window dressing, disgrace, palaver, phoney, sophistry, fallacy, hogwash, gamesmanship, fakery, deceit, hypocrisy, obfuscation, legerdemain, craven, deceptions, gimmick, witch hunt, folly, foolishness, doubletalk, hypocrites, canard, fool, delusion, dissembling, farse, stooges, cabal, doublespeak, farrago, idiocy, lunacy, patsy, fraudulence, buffoons, stratagem, intransigence, fiasco, demagoguery, nonsense, nefariousness, flummery, irrelevance, silliness, process, switcheroo, imposture, doublethink, joke, absurdity, stonewalling, hokum, blather, masquerade, perfidy, artifice, scapegoating, claptrap, buffoonery, disinformation, spinelessness, wishful thinking, brinkmanship, lackeys, tamasha, sleight, gambit, schtick, truth, conceit, rigamarole, potemkin village, gimmickry, obstructionism, trainwreck, humbug, drivel, bumblers, copout, hoax, stunt, pantomime, prank, game, parade, contretemps, wager, caper, carnival, ceremonial, ceremony, pretence

charades

caricature, imitation, impersonation, word

burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, sendup, spoof, takeoff