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hallucinatory collapse: characterized by or characteristic of hallucination ; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford

spoofing collapse

sanctimonious collapse

victimization collapse: adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him"

illusive collapse: based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

snow job collapse: a long and elaborate misrepresentation

self-deception collapse: a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it

hypocritical collapse: professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

misleading collapse

fishy collapse: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"; of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a fishy smell"

delusive collapse: inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

entrapment collapse: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

circumvention collapse: the act of evading by going around

mirage collapse: something illusory and unattainable; an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

dishonest collapse: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive; lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"; lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable

beguiling collapse: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"

hallucination collapse: an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"; illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder

deceptive collapse: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"; causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

kidding collapse

catchy collapse: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

illusory collapse

song and dance collapse: theatrical performance combining singing and dancing

questionable collapse: able to be refuted; subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"

phantasm collapse

illusion collapse: something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"; an erroneous mental representation

wishful thinking collapse: the illusion that what you wish for is actually true

fooling collapse: characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"

entanglement collapse

fallacious collapse: based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"; containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument"

tricky collapse

dubious collapse: not convinced; "they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious"

fallacy collapse: a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

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