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airs: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"

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public image collapse

hypocrisy collapse: insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have; an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

false show collapse

hauteur collapse

swank collapse: imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"

insincerity collapse: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

uppish collapse

mannerism collapse

false front collapse

pretense collapse: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"; imaginative intellectual play; pretending with intention to deceive

facade collapse: the face or front of a building; a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

pretence collapse

feign collapse: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

high horse collapse: an attitude of arrogant superiority; "get off your high horse and admit you are wrong"

condescension collapse: affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank; "the queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable"; the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior; a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

pretension collapse: a false or unsupportable quality; the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"

sham collapse

overact collapse: exaggerate one's acting

exclusiveness collapse

snobbish collapse

patronizing collapse

hoity toity collapse

pretend collapse: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"

simulate collapse: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

contumely collapse

scorn collapse

pose collapse: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes; pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"; behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"

make a show of collapse

dramatize collapse: represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"; put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"

lay it on thick collapse

put on collapse: add to something existing; "She put on a sun room"; add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip"; apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!"; carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game"; put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!"

pontificate collapse: talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"; administer a pontifical office

arrogance collapse: overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

disparagement collapse: the act of speaking contemptuously of; a communication that belittles somebody or something

insult collapse: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

despite collapse: contemptuous disregard; "she wanted neither favor nor despite"

lord collapse: a titled peer of the realm; make a lord of someone

genteel collapse

domineering collapse: tending to domineer

image collapse: the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public; "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"; an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"

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