patraña

f.

fabrication, lie, hoax, take-in.

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patraña

► nombre femenino

1 story

■ no cuenta más que patrañas he lies through his teeth

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SF

1) (=embuste) tall story

2) (=narración confusa) rigmarole, long involved story

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femenino tall story

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= fabrication, humbug, charade.

Ex. The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.

Ex. That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.

Ex. Political parties happily play along with this charade because it enables them to look like they care about the planet.

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femenino tall story

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= fabrication, humbug, charade.

Ex: The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.

Ex: That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.

Ex: Political parties happily play along with this charade because it enables them to look like they care about the planet.

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patraña

feminine

tall story, tall tale

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patraña sustantivo femenino
tall story
'patraña' also found in these entries:
English:
hoax

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patraña nf

yarn, cock-and-bull story

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patraña

f tall story

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patraña nf

: tall tale, humbug, nonsense