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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"

carefulness collapse: the quality of being careful and painstaking; "I admired the carefulness of his work"

pretended collapse

goody goody collapse

chimerical collapse: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

glossy collapse: a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper; (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers; "calendered paper"; "a dress of glossy sateen"; having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"

calculating collapse: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"

furtive collapse: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

simulated collapse: reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character; "under simulated combat conditions"

surreptitious collapse

pious collapse: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings"

unscrupulous collapse: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power"

posture collapse

crooked collapse: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"; not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

stumble collapse: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"; miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"; walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"; encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

outwit collapse: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

smugness collapse: an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

spurious collapse

bugbear collapse: an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson

specious collapse: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

ostensible collapse: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"

histrionics collapse: a deliberate display of emotion for effect

theatrics collapse

dud collapse: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"

lying collapse: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

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

frame up collapse

chimera collapse: a grotesque product of the imagination; (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

hoax collapse: subject to a playful hoax or joke

perversion collapse: the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"; an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse; a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"

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

misleading collapse

vaunt collapse: extravagant self-praise

fraudulent collapse

unproved collapse: not proved; "unproved allegations"; "unproved assumptions"

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"

institution collapse: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated; a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater"; an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

misconception collapse: an incorrect conception

exaggeration collapse: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"; making to seem more important than it really is

underhanded collapse

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