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gewgaw collapse

bauble collapse: a mock scepter carried by a court jester

trifle collapse: sponge cake spread with jam and soaked in wine; served with a custard sauce

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

scoff collapse: treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"

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

jeer collapse: showing your contempt by derision; laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"

nullity collapse: something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

knife collapse: edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle; a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point; use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"

starved collapse: suffering from lack of food

basin collapse: a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin"; a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it; "the basin of the Great Salt Lake"; the quantity that a basin will hold; "a basinful of water"

spoon collapse: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food; formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face; as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"; scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast"

insult collapse: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

despite collapse: contemptuous disregard; "she wanted neither favor nor despite"

thirst collapse: a physiological need to drink; feel the need to drink

red cent collapse

hiatus collapse: a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)

excavate collapse: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"; form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"; find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"; lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"

frippery collapse

vacant collapse: without an occupant or incumbent; "the throne is never vacant"; void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"

lair collapse: the habitation of wild animals

pastiche collapse: a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

parody collapse: humorous or satirical mimicry; a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; make a spoof of or make fun of

valley collapse: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

contempt collapse: a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body; a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous; open disrespect for a person or thing; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

low spirited collapse

kickshaw collapse

aperture collapse: an man-made opening; usually small; a device that controls amount of light admitted; a natural opening in something

jejune collapse

clobber collapse: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"

bleached collapse: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"; (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

modus vivendi collapse: a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement

byword collapse

flash in the pan collapse: someone who enjoys transient success but then fails

roasting collapse: cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"

knickknack collapse: a small inexpensive mass-produced article

hissing collapse

nothing collapse: a nonexistent thing; a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"; in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

defeat collapse: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"

empty headed collapse

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