The Human Being - Hypocrisy Flashcards by David S

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dissimuler

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to dissemble

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feindre de

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to feign / to sham

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faire semblant

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to pretend

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un faux-semblant

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a pretence

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dissimuler / cacher

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to conceal / to hide

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déformer

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to twist

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un escroc

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a twister

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louche

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shady

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douteux

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dubious

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sournois

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devious / underhand

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subrepticement

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surreptitiously

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chachottier

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secretive

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taire qqch

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to hush up sth

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astucieux

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artful

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mensonger

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mendacious

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la ruse

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wile / craft

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rusé

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wily

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malin

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crafty

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avec tuse

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slyly (slaili)

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en cachette, en douce

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on the sly

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furtif

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stealthy

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un manipulateur

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a schemer

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scheming

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manipuler

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to cant

double jeu

double-dealing

berner / duper

to fool / to dupe

induire en erreur

to mislead

trompeur

misleading

tromper

to deceive

l'aveuglement sur soi-même

self-deception

dire un mensonge

to tell lies

un mensonge pieux

a white lie

un bobard

a fib

un baratineur

a smooth talker

un charlatant

a charlatan

un imposteur

a fraud

une supercherie

a fraud / a sham

un imposteur | l'imposture

an impostor | imposture

trahir | une trahison

to betray | a betrayal

un traître | une traîtresse

a traitor | a traitress

une trahison, la trahison

a treason

doubler qqn

to double-cross sby

se faire passer pour

to pass oneself off as

un canular

a hoax

arnaquer | une arnaque

to rip off | a rip-off

feindre la surprise

to feign surprise

un mensonge éhonté

a barefaced lie / a shameless lie

un mensonge flagrant

a blatant lie

un mensonge évident

a downright lie

un mensonge inutile

a pointless lie

un tissu de mensonges

a web of lies

un menteur invétéré

an inveterate / compulsive liar

un menteur-né

a born liar

inventer une histoire

to make up a story

grossir les faits

to blow up the facts

c'est un secret de polichinelle que...

it's an open secret that