fig leaf Definition

smokescreen, charade, pretense, pretext, cloak, illusory, disingenuous, subterfuge, justification, obfuscation, guise, sophistry, flimsy, camouflage, disguise, ruse, illusion, weasel words, sham, craven, acquiescence, veneer, euphemism, red herring, baldfaced, stooge, window dressing, legalistic, blanket, ploy, excuse, hypocritical, doublespeak, flummery, simulacrum, artifice, handmaiden, appeasement, legitimize, shameless, cynically, repugnantly, potemkin village, prevarication, duplicitous, functionless, counterweight, dissembling, risible, casus belli, deceitful, travesty, mendacious, tendentiousness, merkin, mockery, shield, wimping, exculpation, mouthpieces, indefensibly, gimmick, insincere, speciously, expedience, sticking plaster, shibboleth, traduce, eyewash, kowtowing, acquiescing, brownism, constitutionalize, tokenism, legitimatize, nub, pusillanimous, pathetically, doublethink, bargaining chip, answerability, sop, umbrella, circumlocution, posturing, opaque, demagogical, pudenda, strawman, obstructionist, imposture, subservience, farce, discredited, abjuring, vacuous, contrivance, doubletalk, appendage, shamefully,