The term "charade for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express a plea for help or assistance. For example, "We need someone to step up and take the lead role in this project. It's time to stop playing a charade for and be the leader we need."
"It had just been a charade for TV.
Under threat of death, Cerreño and the others were forced to play out a charade for Delano.
The same committee that functioned largely as a charade for Mrs. Kennedy still operates today, to the White House's detriment.
"I believe the appointment of Jeremy Hunt is rather a charade for politics, rather than an actual change in politics".
They weren't godly, the vicar knew they weren't, it was a waste of time, but they all played the charade for the school place.
"It's more about funny situations," Mr. Manson-Smith continued, noting that while Mr. Baron Cohen prefers hit-and-run interactions with real people, Mr. Wootton favors an approach that can require him to keep up the charade for extended periods.
The Guardian was unconvinced ("the problem with these particular characters is that the new thing is never going to be as good as the thing they came from"), and the Mail hostile ("looked like a game of charades for a gaggle of famous thesps let loose with the dressing-up box").
Even more credible is the notion that, whenever a human passes, they immediately buckle down to the dumb charades for which we treasure them — digging in the dirt, inspecting each other's rear fenders — and then, when the coast clears, get back to their solemn discussion of the feline threat.
I was pointing at the wall saying, 'I need a... it's the thing you use to make a … a bit of not-wall.' She looked confused; I'd resorted to charades for random nouns before, but this was an entire performance.
Another told me: "I ended up calling it charades for the dole, it was so pitifully useless".
We're not simply partners in love and sex 'til death do us part, but we're partners in crime; partners in life; partners in charades (for better or worse).
