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Antonyms for fig leaf
Grammar : Noun |
Definition of fig leaf
- As in mask : noun false face, cover
- As in pretext : noun disguise; alleged reason
- As in concealment : noun hiding, secrecy
- As in cover : noun wrapping, cover-up
- As in disguise : noun covering, makeup for deception
- I will send up your cloak, which is barely bigger than a fig leaf, when I can.
- Extract from : « Letters of Edward FitzGerald » by Edward FitzGerald
- You agree with me, don't you, my dear, that it is not necessary to have more than a fig leaf?
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
- "It is merely a fig leaf which this Adam is employing to hide his shame," said Luther.
- Extract from : « History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
- It started by sketching a history of the petticoat, beginning with Eve's fig leaf and working up.
- Extract from : « Personality Plus » by Edna Ferber
- First you must know that several tribes go completely naked and wear but the fig leaf.
- Extract from : « Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime » by William Henry Atherton
- This girl wore a small piece of bark, in guise of a fig leaf, which was the sole approximation to clothing seen among them.
- Extract from : « A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 » by Matthew Flinders
- After the devil had made all the trouble for woman he could with the fig leaf, he introduced the French heel.
- Extract from : « An Ambitious Man » by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- And if they do not encounter energetic opposition the fig leaf will soon among us also attest the fall of taste and of the soul.
- Extract from : « The Morality of Woman and Other Essays » by Ellen Key
Synonyms for fig leaf
- affectation
- air
- alibi
- appearance
- aspect
- awning
- bark
- beard
- binding
- blind
- bluff
- camouflage
- canopy
- canvas
- cap
- caparison
- case
- ceiling
- charade
- cleanup
- cloak
- clothing
- coating
- color
- coloring
- concealment
- cop-out
- costume
- counterfeit
- cover
- cover story
- cover-up
- covering
- coverlet
- curtain
- device
- disguise
- disguisement
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- dome
- domino
- dress
- drop
- envelope
- excuse
- facade
- face
- faking
- false front
- feint
- fig leaf
- front
- get-up
- guise
- hide-out
- hideaway
- hood
- illusion
- integument
- jacket
- laundromat
- lid
- make-believe
- marquee
- mask
- masquerade
- obliteration
- obscuration
- occultation
- overlay
- pageant
- paint
- parasol
- pen name
- plea
- ploy
- polish
- pose
- posture
- pretense
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pretext
- privacy
- pseudonym
- put-on
- red herring
- roof
- routine
- ruse
- screen
- seal
- secretion
- semblance
- sheath
- sheet
- show
- shroud
- simulation
- smoke screen
- song and dance
- spread
- stall
- stopper
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- tarp
- tarpaulin
- tegument
- tent
- top
- trickery
- umbrella
- varnish
- veil
- veneer
- visage
- visor
- window dressing
- window-dressing
- wrapper
- wraps
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