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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

friend at court collapse

curator collapse: the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

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"

warden collapse: the chief official in charge of a prison

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

misleading collapse

vaunt collapse: extravagant self-praise

fraudulent collapse

guardian collapse

VIP 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"

reliance collapse: certainty based on past experience; "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"; the state of relying on something

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

sectary collapse

brick collapse: rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material; a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

forestall collapse

mainstay collapse: the forestay that braces the mainmast

azimuth collapse: the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian

sniveling collapse

astray collapse: away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"

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

unction collapse: anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual; excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm

lady collapse: a woman of the peerage in Britain; a polite name for any woman; "a nice lady at the library helped me"

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