hokum, chicanery, fraudulence, artifice, puffery, jingoism, flummery, subterfuge, vapidity, silliness, farrago, deceptions, disingenuousness, phoney, contrivance, salaciousness, pompousness, artificiality, gimmickry, unoriginality, superficiality, disingenuity, cynicism, tomfoolery, flimflam, charade, phony, tawdriness, pretentiousness, pomposity, forgeries, hackwork, duplicity, underhandedness, inanity, sleaziness, facetiousness, skulduggery, snobbery, falseness, artlessness, manipulation, doctoring, dubiousness, ersatz, mendacity, bloviation, nefariousness, copycatting, sophistry, untrustworthiness, cockup, bombast, hypocrisy, smarminess, deceit, insubstantiality, buncombe, vacuousness, pseudo, sensationalist, sham, hackery, revisionism, imposture, shadiness, niceness, speciousness, dumbness, potemkin village, tastelessness, buffoonery, demagoguery, huckster, infantilism, jape, flatteries, misrepresentation, dissembler, twaddle, dishonesty, pseudoscience, ruse, humbug, prevarication, trickery, fudging, sanctimony, snark, fatuousness, banality, claptrap, simulacra, shenanigans, propaganda, charlatanry, hyperbole, foolery, obfuscation, attitudinizing, pretension, showmanship, fraud, blackmail, fakes, hoax, hoaxes, mystification, pretense, quackery, charlatan, deception, escapism, extravaganza, fake, pornography, posing

dissembling, dissimulation