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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"

dishonorable collapse: lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge"; morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"

sophism collapse: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

immoral collapse: deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong; morally unprincipled; "immoral behavior"

evasive collapse: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"; avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

shady collapse: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

dealing collapse: method or manner of conduct in relation to others; "honest dealing"

reciprocation collapse: alternating back-and-forth movement; the act of making or doing something in return

assert collapse: state categorically; insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"

refutation collapse: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it"

defend collapse: argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"; be on the defensive; act against an attack; protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"; be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant"

defense mechanism collapse: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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

insidious collapse: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"; intended to entrap; beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures"

discreet collapse: marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace"

refute collapse: prove to be false or incorrect; overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"

intercommunication collapse: mutual communication; communication with each other; "they intercepted intercommunication between enemy ships"

oblique collapse: any grammatical case other than the nominative; slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base"

trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

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"

mystification collapse: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; something designed to mystify or bewilder

sophistication collapse: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"; the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment; being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

get to collapse: arrive at the point of; "She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long"

traffic collapse: buying and selling; especially illicit trade; the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night"; the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time; trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold"; deal illegally; "traffic drugs"

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