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charades
/ ʃəˈɑː /
noun
(functioning as singular) a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of charades1
Example Sentences
Writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh had the honors Sunday, and she gamely followed the script’s instructions as though presiding over an evening of charades that an oracle had dreamed up in advance.
David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent spends much of his stage time engaged in a series of charades.
Hitler ran a regime that engaged in elaborate charades to bamboozle sympathetic and influential foreigners about the nature of the Nazi state.
A game of charades, which serves as a substitute for the play-within-a-play, exposes Rev’s guilt as effectively as “The Mousetrap” catches the conscience of the king in “Hamlet.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said lawmakers should stop "their reckless impeachment charades and attacks on law enforcement" and instead "deliver desperately needed reforms for our broken immigration system."
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