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91disguise — Synonyms and related words: accouter, acting, affect, affectation, appearance, assume, attitudinizing, bad copy, bad likeness, ballet skirt, becloud, befog, belie, blanket, blind, bluff, bluffing, burlesque, buskin, camouflage, cap and bells,… …
92excuse — Synonyms and related words: abject apology, absolution, absolve, acknowledgment, acquit, acquittal, acquittance, alibi, alibi out of, allow, amnesty, apologize for, apology, basis, be blind to, blind, breast beating, cause, clear, clearance,… …
93feint — Synonyms and related words: acting, aerial tactics, affectation, airborne tactics, alibi, apology, appearance, applied tactics, armored tactics, art, artful dodge, artifice, attitudinizing, bag of tricks, barrier tactics, befooling, blind, bluff …
94gloss — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acting, affectation, afterglow, air glow, alibi, allowance, amplification, analysis, annotate, annotation, apology, apparatus criticus, appearance, apply paint, attitudinizing, bedaub, bedizen, begild,… …
95guise — Synonyms and related words: MO, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, algorithm, alibi, angle, apology, apparel, appearance, approach, array, aspect, attack, attire, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,… …
96handle — Synonyms and related words: accomplish, act toward, administer, aim, air, alibi, analyze, apology, appellation, appellative, apply, be in, be responsible for, bed, bed down, behave toward, bestow, bilge, binomen, binomial name, blain, bleb, blind …
97protestation — Synonyms and related words: affirmance, affirmation, alibi, allegation, announcement, annunciation, apology, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, beef, bitch, blind, boycott, challenge, cloak, color, complaint, compunction,… …
98refuge — Synonyms and related words: alibi, apology, asylum, blind, bolt hole, cache, citadel, cloak, color, concealment, corner, cover, cover story, cover up, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, defense, den, dernier ressort, device …
99semblance — Synonyms and related words: Prospero, accordance, acting, affectation, affinity, agreement, air, airiness, alibi, alikeness, alliance, analogy, angle, aping, apology, appearance, approach, approximation, aspect, assimilation, atmosphere,… …
100stalking horse — Synonyms and related words: alibi, also ran, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, apology, aspirant, baby kisser, bidet, blind, booby trap, candidate, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, cloak, color, cover, cover story, cover up, dark horse,… …
