If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
[disapproval]
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.
The U.N. at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality. [+ of]
2. uncountable noun
Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.
She and her three brothers played charades.
More Synonyms of charade
charade in British English
(ʃəˈrɑːd)
noun
1.
an episode or act in the game of charades
2. mainly British
an absurd act; travesty
charade in American English
(ʃəˈreɪd; Chiefly British ʃəˈrɑd)
noun
1.
a word or phrase acted out or described as in verse, for others to guess
2. [pl.]
a game in which two teams compete to see which can most quickly guess a group of words or phrases chosen by the other team and acted out in pantomime, often syllable by syllable, by the members of their own
3.
a pretense or fiction that can be seen through readily; travesty