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magic collapse: any art that invokes supernatural powers

artful collapse: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

holiness collapse: the quality of being holy

magician collapse: someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

deceitful collapse: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

refraction collapse: the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another

acting collapse: the performance of a part or role in a drama

duff collapse: a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

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

factitious collapse: not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"

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"

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"

nonobservance collapse: a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

baseborn collapse

disaffected collapse: discontented as toward authority

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"

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

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

pharisaic collapse

pharisaical 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"

showing off collapse

blandish collapse

pose as collapse

mistaken collapse

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

religion collapse: a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"; an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him"

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

misteaching collapse

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