Bluff
Bluff verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.
Usage example: I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau
Put on and bluff are semantically related in deceive topic. In some cases you can use "Put on" instead a verb "Bluff".
Put on
Put on verb - To present a false appearance of.
Usage example: put on a show of anger just for fun
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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It may also be that the original "deception" was a double bluff; he put on an unconvincing lie in order to make a more convincing one later.
Source: Film / Star Trek: First Contact -
It was a bluff (as doing so would hurt the Marionettes as well, something Trixie decidedly doesn't want), but Trixie put on a good enough act even her allies were fooled.
Source: Fanfic / Marionettes -
Fake Aristocrat: At one point, Dave is persuaded by some of the unit's junior officers to put on the mess dress of a lieutenant and bluff his way into a rival unit's officers' mess.
Source: Series / Soldier Soldier
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