disapproval If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality
A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations
Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase