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noun
- 1. an absurd pretence intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: "talk of unity was nothing more than a charade"
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The meaning of CHARADE is a word represented in riddling verse or by picture, tableau, or dramatic action (such as intrusion represented by depiction of inn, true, and shun). How to use charade in a sentence.
CHARADE definition: 1. an act or event that is clearly false: 2. a team game in which each member tries to communicate…. Learn more.
CHARADE meaning: 1. an act or event that is clearly false: 2. a team game in which each member tries to communicate…. Learn more.
If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
noun. /ʃəˈrɑːd/. /ʃəˈreɪd/. [countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not synonym pretence. Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
Charade definition: 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.. See examples of CHARADE used in a sentence.
a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way. synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty. see more. see less. type of: caricature, imitation, impersonation.
