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masquerade collapse: making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth"; a party of guests wearing costumes and masks; pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as an expert on the Internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"; take part in a masquerade

holier-than-thou collapse: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"

self-righteousness collapse

unfaithful collapse: not trustworthy; "an unfaithful reproduction"; not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"; having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful"

unloyal collapse

misconstruction collapse: an ungrammatical constituent

expressionism collapse: an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality

alias collapse: a name that has been assumed temporarily; as known or named at another time or place; "Mr. Smith, alias Mr. Lafayette"

baseborn collapse

untruthful collapse: not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

disloyal collapse: deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers"

disaffected collapse: discontented as toward authority

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

simulacrum collapse: an insubstantial or vague semblance

self-righteous collapse

dumbness collapse

immateriality collapse: the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter; complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration

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

pharisaical collapse

pharisaic collapse

showing off collapse

falsely collapse: in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"; in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"

pose as collapse

mistaken collapse

humbug collapse: communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive; trick or deceive

falseness collapse

individualism collapse: the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs; a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence

semblance collapse: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"

delusion collapse: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas; a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"; (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

understatement collapse: a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

baseless collapse: without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

misteaching collapse

nonintervention collapse: a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

phoney collapse

put something over collapse

delude collapse

hornswaggle collapse

noninterference collapse

feint collapse: any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack); deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"

falsity collapse: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"

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