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

English words for 'A fictitious account that is intended to hide one's real motive.'

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