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Main Entry:	dissemble
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disguise, pretend
Synonyms:	affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, dissimulate, double-talk, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, hide, let on, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on an act, sham, shroud, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash, cover up, doublespeak, four-flush, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, shuck and jive
Notes:	dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart
Antonyms:	admit, allow

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Main Entry:	evasive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	deceitful, tricky
Synonyms:	ambiguous, cagey, cunning, deceptive, devious, elusive, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, unclear, vague, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling
Antonyms:	direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward

Main Entry:	hypocrisy
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	deceitfulness, pretense
Synonyms:	affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness
Antonyms:	honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness

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Main Entry:	hypocritical
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	deceitful, pretending
Synonyms:	affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, deceptive, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, left-handed, lying, oily, phony, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable, caviling, deluding, dissembling, feigning, jivey, moralistic, pharisaical, pietistic, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued
Antonyms:	actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright

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Main Entry:	insincere
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dishonest, pretended
Synonyms:	backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced*, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful, ambidextrous, dissembling, dissimulating, put-on
Antonyms:	forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere

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Main Entry:	lying
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dishonest
Synonyms:	deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double-dealing, false, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, shifty, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, unreliable, untruthful, wrong, committing perjury, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, equivocating, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, misrepresenting, misstating, prevaricating
Antonyms:	direct, frank, honest

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Main Entry:	mask
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	false face, cover
Synonyms:	affectation, air, appearance, aspect, beard, blind, camouflage, cloak, concealment, cover-up, disguise, facade, front, guise, hood, masquerade, pose, posture, pretense, pretext, screen, semblance, show, simulation, veil, veneer, visage, window dressing, disguisement, dissembling, dissimulation, domino, fig leaf, put-on, visor

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Main Entry:	quack
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	counterfeit
Synonyms:	bum, dishonest, fake, false, fraudulent, phony, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, sham*, simulated, unprincipled, dissembling
Antonyms:	genuine, original, real

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Main Entry:	sly
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	clever, devious
Synonyms:	arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily, bluffing, conniving, dissembling, guileful, plotting, sneaking
Antonyms:	honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever

Main Entry:	untrue
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dishonest
Synonyms:	apocryphal, cheating, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, hollow, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off, perfidious, recreant, sham, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, unfaithful, unsound, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong, counterfactual, dissembling, forsworn, imprecise, out of line, perjured, prevaricating, unloyal
Antonyms:	faithful, honest, true

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Main Entry:	pretending
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	feigning
Synonyms:	acting, cheating, concealment, counterfeiting, covering, pretense, simulation, bluffing, dissembling, dissimulation, masking, shamming

Main Entry:	camouflage
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disguise, cover
Synonyms:	beard*, becloud, cloak, conceal, deceive, dim, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obfuscate, obscure, screen, veil, befog, cover up, throw on makeup
Antonyms:	reveal, show, uncover

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Main Entry:	cloak
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disguise
Synonyms:	blanket, camouflage, coat, conceal, cover, curtain, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obscure, pretext, screen, shroud, veil
Antonyms:	reveal, uncover, uncloak

Main Entry:	conceal
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	hide, disguise
Synonyms:	beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch, cover, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up, lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk, slink, sneak, stow, veil, wrap, cover up, keep dark, keep secret, lie low, put in a hole, stash, stay out of sight, tuck away
Antonyms:	disclose, divulge, expose, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, lay bare, let out

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Main Entry:	disguise
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	mask; misrepresent
Synonyms:	affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters
Antonyms:	expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask

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Main Entry:	dissimulate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	conceal, disguise
Synonyms:	beard*, camouflage, cloak, deceive, dissemble, dress up, fake, feign, hide, make-believe, mask, pretend, present a false face, present a false front
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	feign
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pretend
Synonyms:	act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, fake, forge, imagine, imitate, invent, play, play possum, put on, sham, simulate, stonewall, do a bit, four-flush, give appearance of, make show of, phony up, put on act, put up a front
Antonyms:	be true

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Main Entry:	hide
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	conceal; remain unseen
Synonyms:	adumbrate, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, harbor, hold back, hole up, hush up, mask, obscure, plant, protect, reserve, salt away*, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, stifle, suppress, veil, withhold, blot out, go into hiding, go underground, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, not give away, not tell, put out of the way, squirrel, stash, stow away, take cover, tuck away
Antonyms:	bare, disclose, divulge, exhibit, expose, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, unmask, lay bare, let out

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Main Entry:	lie
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	tell an untruth
Synonyms:	beguile, bull, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, invent, make believe, malign, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant, prevaricate, promote, put on, snow, string along, victimize, BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, break promise, go back on, misguide, misinstruct, misspeak, overdraw, put up a front, soft-soap
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	mask
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disguise
Synonyms:	beard, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover, defend, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, front, guard, hide, obscure, protect, safeguard, screen, secrete, shield, veil, cover up
Antonyms:	reveal, uncover, unmask