charadenoun
uk/ʃəˈrɑːd/us/ʃəˈreɪd/charade noun (FALSE SITUATION)
[ C ] an act or event that is clearly false:
Everyone knew who was going to get the job from the start - the interviews were just a charade.
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- lie
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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charade noun (GAME)
charades [ U ]
a team game in which each member tries to communicate to the others a particular word or phrase that they have been given, by expressing each syllable or word using silent actions
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Miscellaneous games & activities
- air hockey
- bingo
- bungee jumping
- cage diving
- crossword
- cryptic crossword
- free running
- freestyle football
- Frisbee
- handball
- hangman
- horseshoe
- noughts and crosses
- pinball machine
- quoits
- resistance training
- softball
- tiddlywinks
- treasure hunt
- tug of war
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