charade

How To Use charade In A Sentence

• The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.
• Instead, the selection process became a charade - a complete and utter sham. The Sun
• The President too was pressed into the service of this noisome charade.
• Hamstrung by his uncle, he was having to go through an exasperating charade in order to nobble the project. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
• It was an elaborate charade which, through the performance of ritual, disguised the imposition of the royal will.
• The "embrace" is not for those who disagree about the moral character of homosexual acts and the charade of transgendered manipulations, but for those, like President Obama, who celebrate homosexuality as a worthy equal to heterosexuality (or is it better than heterosexuality??), who insist the only criteria for marriage is "love" (which, for male homosexuals, changes focus often). A couple of thoughts about Obama's "Hey, You're Gay, Hurray!" Day
• Willing to humor him though, just to see what he was up to, I continued the charade.
• Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.
• Moll took a moment to try to decipher it, feeling like she was playing an odd parlour game of charades.
• There was a lawn tennis court and eleven indoor staff, there was fishing and shooting, and adventures for the children, with tree houses and charades; a family orchestra and dressing up in clothes from the huge dressing-up cupboard on wet days. Mrs. Miniver