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synonyms (147)
Words with the same meaning
- acting
- affectation
- affectedness
- airs
- airs and graces
- anteriority
- appearance
- artificiality
- attitudinizing
- blazon
- bluff
- bluffing
- bold front
- brave face
- brave front
- bravura
- brilliancy
- camouflage
- cheating
- cloak
- color
- coloring
- cover
- daring
- dash
- deception
- delusion
- demonstration
- disguise
- display
- dissemblance
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- domino
- dramatics
- eclat
- etalage
- exhibition
- exhibitionism
- facade
- face
- facet
- facia
- fakery
- faking
- false air
- false colors
- false face
- false show
- falsity
- fanfaronade
- feigned belief
- feigning
- feint
- figure
- flair
- flaunt
- flaunting
- flourish
- fore
- forefront
- foreground
- forehand
- foreland
- forepart
- forequarter
- foreside
- foreword
- four-flushing
- fraud
- front
- front elevation
- front man
- front matter
- front page
- front view
- frontage
- frontal
- frontier
- frontispiece
- gilt
- gloss
- head
- heading
- histrionics
- humbug
- humbuggery
- hypocrisy
- image
- imposture
- incognito
- insincerity
- lap
- manifestation
- mannerism
- mask
- masque
- masquerade
- mere show
- meretriciousness
- mummery
- obverse
- ostentation
- outward show
- pageant
- pageantry
- parade
- playacting
- pose
- posing
- posture
- preface
- prefix
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- priority
- proscenium
- protective coloration
- prunes and prisms
- public image
- put-on
- putting on airs
- representation
- seeming
- semblance
- sham
- show
- showing-off
- simulacrum
- simulation
- smoke screen
- speciousness
- spectacle
- splash
- splurge
- staginess
- stylishness
- theatrics
- unnaturalness
- varnish
- vaunt
- veil
- visor
- vizard
- vizard mask
- window dressing
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