shamming
Putting on act
Shamming is pretending or faking, especially to avoid work or responsibility.
A soldier shamming illness to skip duty, a student shamming confusion to delay a test.
He wasn't really hurt—just shamming.
The word carries an accusation: the person knows they're deceiving others.
Simulating something false
- pretendingSimulating what isn't real
- feigningPretending to feel something
- malingeringFabricating symptoms for gain
- bluffingDeceiving about one's position
dissembling · deceiving · conning · tricking · hoaxing · hoodwinking · bamboozling · misleading
Deception through false identity
- masqueradingPretending to be another
- posingAssuming an attitude
- posturingInsincere behavior for effect
- imitatingCopying another's manner
mimicking · acting · playacting · charade · disguise · guise · facade · simulation
faking
Simulating something false
- pretendingSimulating what isn't real
- feigningPretending to feel something
- malingeringFabricating symptoms for gain
bluffing · dissembling · deceiving · conning · tricking · hoaxing · hoodwinking · bamboozling · misleading · duping
imposture
Deception through false identity
- masqueradingPretending to be another
- posingAssuming an attitude
- posturingInsincere behavior for effect
imitating · mimicking · acting · playacting · charade · disguise · guise · facade · simulation · dissimulation
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- pretendingpretend, pretending, fake, feign, make-believe
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- fooling aroundjoking, kidding, jesting, fooling, teasing
shammingtelling the truth
leveling · coming clean · disclosing · acting in good faith · revealing