FALSE PRETENCE Synonyms

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the face or front of a building

• a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• relating to or located in the front

• the side that is forward or prominent

• the line along which opposing armies face each other

• the outward appearance of a person

• the side that is seen or that goes first

• a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

• a sphere of activity involving effort

• (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses

• the immediate proximity of someone or something

• the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer

• a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

• be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to

• confront bodily

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• subject to a playful hoax or joke

• a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

• a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party

• making a false outward show

• take part in a masquerade

• pretend to be someone or something that you are not

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• adopted in order to deceive

• make a pretence of

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation