Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretending: (139 results)
Often used in the same context:
fooling, impersonating, disguising, telling, faking, prattling, believing, masquerading, posing, purporting, insinuating, hoaxing, imagining, bullshitting, feigning, supposed, hating, dicking, trying, deluded, nosy parker, pissing, imitating, conning, letting, fornicating, cadging, tricking, spiting, shutup, rabbiting, hoodwinks, whoring, scheming, blathering, claiming, dissimulate, fibbing, doing, pencil pusher, insisting, farting, giggling, peeing, pranked, conniving, seducing, prancing, wanking, duping, freaking, whining, forgetting, mooning, talking, mocking, kidding, yammers, spouting, chatting, concocting, sniveling, mistaking, babbling, joking, blabbing, attempting, demonizing, shitfaced, bitching, pontificating, tapdance, suckered, convinces, smirking, messing, picturing, louses, crapping, denigrating, skiving, gulled, crooking, swanning, guffawing, instructing, backbite, professing, dragooning, sicking, tangoing, easter bunny, gabbling, gallivanting, devil worshiper, hassling, contriving, befriending, sneering, bilks
More specific:
affectation, appearance, make-believe, mannerism, masquerade, pose, show
Appears in the definition of:
., ambidextrous, appearance, bluff, deceitful, dissembling, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, duplicity, feigning, hypocrisy, impersonation, imposture, intimate, janus-faced, laugh away, laugh off, malinger, malingering, pretence, pretense, rope-a-dope, show, skulk, skulking, two-faced
More general:
deceit, deception, dissimulation
Synonyms:
Also try:simulation
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