charade 的定义
- charades, 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 近义词
pretense
更多charade例句
- You may not resolve that years-old rift with your sibling, but you may thaw the ice over a campfire or a game of charades.
- Hospitals had been accepting bribes from the disinfectant’s manufacturer, and the government knew about the whole charade.
- Other options include Jackbox, a popular virtual party game in which players sign in to an app to play games reminiscent of charades or Pictionary.
- The vaudeville veteran sees right through this charade of benighted widowhood, peeling back the veneer to reveal the specimen of ruthless ambition beneath.
- 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.