charade, bogus, phony, phoney, fraudulent, ruse, deceitful, farce, smokescreen, dishonest, ploy, illegitimate, unethical, fraud, rigged, hoodwink, falsely, travesty, legitimize, fig leaf, insincere, duped, red herring, deception, fake, phantom, window dressing, disingenuous, gimmick, manipulated, undemocratic, illusory, flawed, shameless, cheated, fictitious, stooge, eyewash, defraud, deceit, scam, deceptive, hogwash, orchestrated, underhandedly, hypocritical, misleading, farcical, subterfuge, chicanery, cynically, worthless, meaningless, corrupt, kickbacks, mockery, legitimate, bilked, preposterous, inflated, pyramid scheme, swindle, conned, aboveboard, baloney, rort, artifice, fabrications, falsified, colourable, snakeoil, liars, baseless, boondoggle, misrepresentation, puffery, valueless, improper, discredited, illusion, profiteering, ripoff, ponzi, ludicrous, glorified, slush fund, fait accompli, poppycock, hoax, boycotted, purported, gimmickry, fleecing, duplicitous, charlatan, legitimacy, quid pro quo, fraudulence, subverted, potemkin village, rubber stamp, flimflam, humbug, pretense, shams, affectation, rubbish, mystification, pretence, falsehood, hypocrisy, nonsense, cant, imposture, insincerity, lie, unsuccessful, mock, pretended, secular, genuine, indecisive, intellectualized, christian, vs., clandestine, desultory, experimental, illiberal, inconclusive, iniquitous, protracted, whilst, concluded, ersatz, futile

bull, fake book, feint, mouth, namedropper, play, play possum, ringer, take a dive, waffle

strawman, straw man

act, belie, cheat, cheater, counterfeit, deceiver, dissemble, forgery, imitation, misrepresent, pretend, trickster

affect, assume, assumed, faker, false, feign, fictive, imitative, imposter, impostor, postiche, pretender, pseud, pseudo, put on, role player, simulate