Synonyms of the word

sham

• adj. Intended to deceive; false.
• adj. counterfeit; unreal.
• n. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
• n. Trickery, hoaxing.
• n. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
• n. A decorative cover for a pillow.
• v. To deceive, cheat, lie.
• v. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
• v. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

assume

• v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
• v. To take on a position, duty or form.
• v. To adopt a feigned quality or manner.
• v. To receive or adopt.
• v. To adopt an idea or cause.

assumed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of assume.
• adj. Used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
• adj. Supposed or presumed.

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

belie

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
• v. (transitive) To tell lies about; to slander.
• v. (transitive) To give a false representation of, to misrepresent.
• v. (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
• v. (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal…
• v. (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly…
• v. (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill with lies.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

counterfeit

• adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
• adj. Inauthentic.
• adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
• n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
• n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
• n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
• n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
• v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

dissemble

• v. (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
• v. (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

fake

• adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
• adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
• n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• n. A trick; a swindle.
• n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
• v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
• v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
• v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
• v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
• n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
• v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

faker

• n. One who fakes something.
• n. An impostor or impersonator.
• n. (obsolete) A thief.
• n. (obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
• n. (obsolete) A workman who dresses things up.

false

• adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
• adj. Spurious, artificial.
• adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
• adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
• adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
• adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
• adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
• adj. (music) Out of tune.
• adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
• n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.

feign

• v. To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
• v. To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
• v. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
• v. To hide or conceal.

fictitious

• adj. Not real; invented; contrived.

fictive

• adj. fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented.

forgery

• n. The act of forging metal into shape.
• n. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or…
• n. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
• n. (archaic) An invention, creation.

fraud

• n. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
• n. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
• n. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
• n. A person who performs any such trick.
• n. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
• v. (obsolete) To defraud.

imitation

• n. The act of imitating.
• n. A copy.
• n. (attributive) not the real thing.

imitative

• adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
• adj. Modelled after another thing.

imposter

• n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise.

impostor

• n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

misrepresent

• v. To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.

postiche

• n. Any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig.

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

pretended

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pretend.

pretender

• n. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
• n. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.

pseud

• n. An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.

pseudo

• n. An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
• n. A poseur; one who is fake.
• n. (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code.
• n. (Internet) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
• n. Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
• adj. Other than what is apparent; spurious; sham.
• adj. Insincere.

shammer

• n. A person who shams; a liar.

simulate

• v. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
• adj. (obsolete) Feigned; pretended.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).