live a lie
to live in a way that is dishonest because you are pretending to be something that you are not, to yourself or to other people:
She doesn't know you're married? You have to stop living a lie and tell her.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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