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charade

[ shuh-reyd; especially British shuh-rahd ]

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noun

charades, (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players are typically divided into two teams, members of which take turns at acting out in pantomime a word, phrase, title, etc., which the members of their own team must guess.
a word or phrase acted out in this game.
a blatant pretense or deception, especially something so full of pretense as to be a travesty.

charade

/ ʃəˈrɑːd /

Origin of charade¹

1770–80; < French < Provençal charrad ( o ) entertainment, equivalent to charr ( á ) to chat, chatter (from imitative root) + -ado -ade ¹

If the Democrats maintain this charade, 2016 will not be the cakewalk they dream it to be.

What I mean is that both sides found time to put on a charade.

Finally, she reached a point where she could no longer continue the charade.

Democrats, do the American thing and have nothing to do with this charade.

If this is all a hoax, Detweiler is a master of the charade.

But I know what it is, I'm in love—that confounded Charade put me up to that dodge.

He looked on hopelessly, as you look at a charade of which you have not got the key.

Indeed, the Far Eastern state of things is a kind of charade on the word; for humanity there is singularly uniform.

The last charade party had not been held in their parlors, they congratulated themselves.

The Charade is of recent birth, and I cannot discover the origin of this species of logogriphes.

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