Cover up
Cover up verb - To keep from being publicly known.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Old Man Owl, but he's faking it to cover up his real motives.
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But she's faking, using what she knows of possession from movies (and stealing the priest's medication to bring on some symptoms) to convince everyone she's possessed, all to cover up a murder.
Source: Hollywood Exorcism - Differs from the Fake-Out Make-Out because in that case both people are faking the kissing in order to cover up that they're united in trying to do something nefarious.
Source: Kiss of Distraction
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