SHAM Crossword Clue & Answer

act ape cod lie tin

airs cant copy dash face fake faux flam gilt hoax junk mask mock play pose sell show veil wear

alibi blind bluff bogus cheap cheat cloak color cover dummy eclat faked faker false farce feign feint flair fraud front gaudy gloss guise hokey image junky let on mimic paste phony poser put on put-on quack quasi queer snide spoof trick vaunt

acting affect assume blazon create daring deceit device do a bit ersatz excuse facade fakery faking figure flaunt forged gammon handle hollow humbug invent made-up parade phoney poseur posing pseudo put off put-off refuge ringer rip off rip-off ripoff screen shoddy splash tinsel unreal warped

apology assumed bastard bluffer bravura colored con game cover up cover-up display etalage falsity feigned fictive forgery frame up frame-up garbled imitate man-made mislead mockery overact pageant plaster plastic playact posture pretend pretext profess seeming shammer splurge swindle twisted varnish

act a part affected apparent blagueur bluffing cheating coloring delusion disguise fakement false air feigning flimflam flourish imposter impostor make as if make like mere show pretence pretense put-up job simulate so-called spurious travesty

brummagem burlesque charlatan clinquant colorable colouring deception dissemble distorted dramatics dramatise dramatize dressed up false show falsehood falsified flaunting four-flush glorified hypocrisy hypocrite imitation imposture invention let on like mannerism pageantry perverted pinchbeck play a part pretended pretender put on airs quackster semblance simulated soi-disant sophistic spectacle staginess stratagem synthetic theatrics titivated ungenuine unnatural

apocryphal appearance artificial brilliancy caricature cover story exhibition factitious false front fictitious fraudulent humbuggery lame excuse malingerer masquerade mountebank pharisaism play a scene play possum playacting poor excuse pretension sanctimony self-styled showing-off simulacrum simulation substitute subterfuge tartuffery tartuffism

adulterated affectation counterfeit dissembling dissimulate embellished embroidered fabrication fanfaronade fourflusher histrionics histrionize insincerity locus standi make a show of make believe make out like make-believe ostentation outward show plagiarized public image quacksalver saltimbanco smoke screen smokescreen stylishness unauthentic

affectedness dissemblance four-flushing hypocritical illegitimate impersonator lay it on thick pecksniffery protestation public motive speciousness

airs and graces artificiality counterfeited demonstration dissimulation exhibitionism feigned belief make a pretense manifestation putting on airs stalking-horse unnaturalness

attitudinizing presupposition representation supposititious window dressing

pharisaicalness prunes and prisms whited sepulcher

hypocriticalness meretriciousness ostensible motive

sanctimoniousness

tug the heartstrings

go through the motions