cover story
backstory
stalking-horse
cover-up
pretext
dissemble
string along
bamboozle
play false
pull the wool over someone's eyes
lead by the nose
hoodwink
snow
write out
look off
embroidery
covering
effigy
cover
screening
masking
disguise
cloak
camouflage
fraud in fact
fiction
positive fraud
blow someone's cover
bad faith
will-o'-the-wisp
stain
misimagine
smirch
ignis fatuus
spot
smear
illusion
misframing
delusion
blot
head game
cook the books
facade
keep one's cards close to one's chest
lunacy
live a lie
cryptomorphic
window dressing
secretion
dissimulate
personate
facticide
hoax
sphinx
misdirection
obfuscatorily
unhoax
show the cloven foot
dissimulation
caricature
imagination
lie
obfuscatory
true colours
bury
wokefish
obfuscate
reconcealment
gotcha
spuriosity
legend
masked
wink-wink
obscurantism
put-up
cloaked
misaccount
show one's true colors
disguised
counternarrative
counterfeit
fake
Freudian slip
pass off as
romance
shuck and jive
fraud
pseudohistory
suppress
misprint
traveller's tale
false light
ackamarackus
ambush
bastardize
ignoral
stalking horse

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