Synonyms and related words :
acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, ballot-box stuffing, bluff, bluffing, bunco, cardsharping, charlatanism, charlatanry, cheat, cheating, color, coloring, copy, copying, counterfeit, counterfeiting, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, diddle, diddling, disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dodge, emulation, fabrication, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, following, forgery, four-flushing, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, front, gambit, gerrymandering, gilt, gloss, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hit-off, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imitation, impersonation, imposition, impression, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mirroring, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parody, phony, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, ploy, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, put-on, quackery, quackishness, quackism, racket, repetition, representation, ruse, scam, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, sleight, speciousness, spoof, swindle, takeoff, varnish, wile, window dressing