charade
cha|rade /ʃər'ɑːd, AM -r'eɪd/ (charades)
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing
If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...
The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.
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Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing
If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...
The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.