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charade
[ shuh-reyd; especially British shuh-rahd ]
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
/ ʃəˈ°ùÉ‘Ë»å /
noun
- an episode or act in the game of charades
- an absurd act; travesty
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"This predetermined charade is played out after 'consultation' with those outside the room - namely the government-appointed commissioner Max Caller, who is directly under your department and your authority," she said.
Mistaken identity is a central conceit of the genre, and FastHorse takes this charade to another intellectual level.
More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, here we are in the very same place we've been for endless years — on pause again, despite the endless charade of forward steps that go nowhere.
Now that the athletes are being paid through NIL and other means, it’s time to end the charade and divest the athletics from the academics.
David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent spends much of his stage time engaged in a series of charades.
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