false colours

plural noun

a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
the ship was sailing under false colours
an assumed or misleading name or guise
to trade under false colours

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I could only have gone as a professed wizard or prophet—under false colours, in fact.

She feels she has been sailing under false colours and desires to make some reparation.

He was sailing under such false colours as her brother's benefactor.

He was there under false colours, being a spy of the other camp, but something in him found itself at home among the patriots.

I said all this just naturally, not wishing him to think that I feared Edmond Czerny nor was willing to hoist false colours.

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