charade
jugglery
cog
hoodwinking
sham
it is no accident
noodleism
ruse
parlour trick
deceptively
put-on
assumed
feigningly
lie
smoke and mirrors
covery
pretendedly
rannygazoo
fraudulent
deceitfully
fallacious
deceitful
dissimulation
indirection
begab
trick
knavery
spoof
false
misconceiving
self-deception
Muppet News Flash
fakeout
unhoodwink
spuriosity
pretend
lirt
artifice
deceit
fraudulence
nondeception
dupery
confounding
subterfuge
debunk
jiggery-pokery
fraud
humbug
pass the bottle of smoke
farcical
Jesuitism
hoax
bullspeak
misdirection
have someone going
pseudo-controversy
bluffingly
rehearsed
discrediting
romance
falsism
obfuscatory
truth be told
caricature
misleading
chicane
falsehood
counterfeit
crazy like a fox
travesty
tricky
🧢
deception
misspeaking
misfigure
misrelease
deceptor
lying
snow job
duplicity
ass-pull
blag
fudge
hook in
shuck
facturd
ulterior
misfool
the oldest trick in the book
misnotification
blench
bluff
pass off as
misplot

English words for 'A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.'

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