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imitation
imitation
SEE DEFINITION OF
imitation
WORDS RELATED TO
IMITATION
sham
noun
hoax, trick
burlesque
cant
caricature
cheat
counterfeit
cover-up
deceit
deception
facade
fake
fakery
false front
farce
feint
flimflam
forgery
fraud
hypocrisy
hypocriticalness
imitation
impostor
imposture
jive
mock
mockery
pharisaism
phoniness
pretend
pretense
pretext
pseudo
put-on
sell
smoke
snow job
spoof
travesty
whitewash
simulated
adjective
fake
artificial
assumed
counterfeit
derivative
factitious
fictitious
imitated
imitation
manmade
phony
sham
synthetic
spawning
noun
reproduction
Photostat
X-ray
Xerox
breeding
carbon
carbon copy
chip off old block
clone
copy
ditto
dupe
facsimile
fake
flimsy
generation
imitation
increase
look-alike
mimeo
mimeograph
mirror image
multiplication
offprint
photocopy
photograph
pic
picture
portrayal
print
procreation
proliferation
propagation
recreation
reduplication
reenactment
renewal
replica
replication
reprinting
repro
revival
stat
transcription
twin
spurious
adjective
counterfeit, fake
affected
apocryphal
artificial
assumed
bastard
bent
bogus
bum
contrived
deceitful
deceptive
dummy
ersatz
faked
false
feigned
forged
framed
illegitimate
imitation
make-believe
mock
phony
pirate
pretend
pretended
pseudo
put-on
sham
simulated
specious
substitute
unauthentic
ungenuine
unreal
substitute
adjective
alternative
acting
additional
alternate
another
artificial
backup
counterfeit
dummy
ersatz
experimental
false
imitation
makeshift
mock
near
other
provisional
proxy
pseudo
replacement
representative
reserve
second
sham
simulated
spurious
stopgap
substitutive
supplemental
supplementary
supposititious
surrogate
symbolic
temporary
tentative
vicarial
vicarious
suppositious
adjective
counterfeit
Hollywood
affected
assumed
bent
bogus
brummagem
copied
crock
deceptive
delusive
delusory
ersatz
fake
faked
false
feigned
fictitious
fishy
forged
framed
fraudulent
imitation
misleading
mock
not genuine
not kosher
phony
pirate
plant
pretended
pretentious
pseudo
put-on
queer
sham
snide
soft shell
spurious
supposititious
two-faced
won't fly
wrong
supposititious
adjective
counterfeit
Hollywood
affected
assumed
bent
bogus
brummagem
copied
crock
deceptive
delusive
delusory
ersatz
fake
faked
false
feigned
fictitious
fishy
forged
framed
fraudulent
imitation
misleading
mock
not genuine
not kosher
phony
pirate
plant
pretended
pretentious
pseudo
put-on
queer
sham
snide
soft shell
spurious
suppositious
two-faced
won't fly
wrong
takeoff
noun
mockery, satire
burlesque
caricature
cartoon
comedy
imitation
lampoon
mocking
parody
ridicule
send-up
spoof
travesty
unnatural
adjective
not regular; artificial
aberrant
abnormal
affected
anomalous
assumed
bizarre
concocted
contrary
contrived
ersatz
extraordinary
fabricated
factitious
false
feigned
forced
freakish
freaky
imitation
incredible
insincere
irregular
labored
made-up
make-believe
odd
outlandish
outrageous
perverse
perverted
phony
preposterous
pseudo
put-on
queer
staged
stiff
stilted
strained
strange
studied
supernatural
synthetic
theatrical
unaccountable
uncanny
unconforming
unorthodox
unusual
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