Related Words:
- flattering
collapse - showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering color" related words >
- abject,
- acclamatory,
- admiring,
- adulatory,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- backscratching,
- becoming,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- commendatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- encomiastic,
- enhancing,
- eulogistic,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- gratifying,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- kind,
- laudatory,
- mealymouthed,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- panegyric,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sugary,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- courtly
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- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" related words >
- adulatory,
- aristocratic,
- august,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- ceremonious,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- civilized,
- complimentary,
- conventional,
- courtierly,
- dignified,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- gracious,
- grand,
- grave,
- gushing,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- imposing,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- kingly,
- knightly,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- majestic,
- mealymouthed,
- noble,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- old-fashioned,
- old-world,
- prim,
- princely,
- queenly,
- regal,
- royal,
- sedate,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- sober,
- soft-soaping,
- solemn,
- starchy,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- studied,
- sycophantic,
- unctuous,
- venerable,
- wheedling,
- worthy
- obsequious
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- attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants" related words >
- abject,
- adulatory,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- low,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- menial,
- obeisant,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- servile,
- slavish,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- sycophantic,
- sycophantical,
- sycophantish,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- complimentary
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- conveying or resembling a compliment; "a complimentary remark"
- costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" related words >
- acclamatory,
- admiring,
- adulatory,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- charitable,
- commendatory,
- congratulational,
- congratulatory,
- costless,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- eleemosynary,
- encomiastic,
- eulogistic,
- expenseless,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- for free,
- for love,
- for nothing,
- free,
- free as air,
- free for nothing,
- free gratis,
- free of charge,
- free of cost,
- freebie,
- fulsome,
- giftlike,
- given,
- gratis,
- gratuitous,
- gratulant,
- gratulatory,
- gushing,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- laudatory,
- mealymouthed,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on the house,
- panegyric,
- panegyrical,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sycophantic,
- unbought,
- unctuous,
- unpaid-for,
- untaxed,
- wheedling,
- without charge
- hypocritical
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- professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- alleged,
- ambidextrous,
- assumed,
- avowed,
- bland,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- claimed,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- fake,
- faked,
- faking,
- false,
- feigned,
- feigning,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- in name only,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- moralistic,
- oily,
- ostensible,
- pecksniffian,
- perfidious,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pretended,
- pretending,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- put-on,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sham,
- simon-pure,
- simulated,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- specious,
- spurious,
- treacherous,
- two-faced,
- unctuous,
- underhand,
- untrustworthy
- faithless
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- having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- agnostic,
- ambidextrous,
- apostate,
- artful,
- atheist,
- atheistic,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- collaborative,
- conscienceless,
- crafty,
- creedless,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- derelict,
- disaffected,
- disbelieving,
- dishonest,
- disloyal,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubting,
- duplicitous,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fickle,
- fluctuating,
- freethinking,
- heathen,
- heretical,
- hypocritical,
- inconstant,
- incredulous,
- infidel,
- infidelic,
- insincere,
- irreligious,
- minimifidian,
- nonbelieving,
- not true to,
- nullifidian,
- of bad faith,
- pagan,
- perfidious,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- repudiative,
- sceptical,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- treasonable,
- treasonous,
- trothless,
- two-faced,
- unbelieving,
- unchristian,
- unconfident,
- unconverted,
- unconvinced,
- unfaithful,
- unloyal,
- unreliable,
- unscrupulous,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- wavering,
- without faith
- adipose,
- adulatory,
- barmy,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blubbery,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cajoling,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- fat,
- fatty,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- foam-flecked,
- foamy,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- glib,
- greasy,
- gushing,
- heady,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- lathery,
- mealymouthed,
- mucoid,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- rich,
- sebaceous,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- soapsuddy,
- soapsudsy,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- spumose,
- spumous,
- spumy,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- suddy,
- sudsy,
- suety,
- sycophantic,
- tallowy,
- unctuous,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- wheedling,
- yeasty
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- bawling,
- beggarly,
- blubbering,
- bootlicking,
- canting,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- cry,
- crying,
- dissolved in tears,
- false,
- fawning,
- fit of crying,
- flattering,
- flood of tears,
- footlicking,
- good cry,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- greet,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- in tears,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- lachryma,
- lachrymal,
- lachrymose,
- lachrymosity,
- lacrimatory,
- mealymouthed,
- melting mood,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- overflowing eyes,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- ready to cry,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sobbing,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- tear,
- tear bottle,
- teardrop,
- tearful,
- tearful eyes,
- tearfulness,
- tears,
- teary,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- weepiness,
- weeping,
- weepy,
- whimpering,
- with eyes suffused
- sophism
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- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone related words >
- apparent soundness,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- circularity,
- claptrap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- empty words,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- formal fallacy,
- hysteron proteron,
- illogicality,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- invalidity,
- irrationality,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misapplication,
- moonshine,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rationalization,
- solecism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- unsoundness,
- verbal fallacy,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- weak point
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adipose,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blubbery,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- false,
- fat,
- fatty,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- fulsome,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- greasy,
- gushing,
- holier-than-thou,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- mealymouthed,
- mucoid,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- rich,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- sebaceous,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- suety,
- sycophantic,
- tallowy,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- wheedling
- overrefined
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- excessively delicate or refined related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apparently sound,
- artificial,
- casuistic,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- deceptive,
- delicate,
- disingenuous,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fallacious,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- goosy,
- hairsplitting,
- hollow,
- hypercritical,
- hyperelegant,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- illusive,
- insincere,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- mannered,
- mincing,
- morbidly sensitive,
- namby-pamby,
- nervous,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- oversubtle,
- overtender,
- passible,
- pedantic,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- prickly,
- puristic,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- simpering,
- skittish,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- studied,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical,
- unnatural
- crafty
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- marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- keen,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- tidy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- overdone
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- cooked too long but still edible related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- artificial,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- bien cuit,
- big-sounding,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- done,
- doneness,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- hyperbolic,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- medium,
- medium-rare,
- meretricious,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overcooked,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- superlative,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- unnatural,
- well-cooked,
- well-done
- mealymouthed
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- hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fair-spoken,
- false,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- tongue in cheek,
- truckling,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- wheedling
- oily
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- coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- adipose,
- adulatory,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blubbery,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- fat,
- fatty,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- fulsome,
- glib,
- goody-goody,
- greased,
- greasy,
- gushing,
- holier-than-thou,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- lubric,
- lubricated,
- lubricious,
- mealymouthed,
- mucoid,
- obsequious,
- oiled,
- oily-tongued,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- rich,
- sanctimonious,
- sebaceous,
- servile,
- simon-pure,
- sleek,
- slick,
- sliddery,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slippy,
- slithery,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- soaped,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- sophisticated,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- suety,
- sycophantic,
- tallowy,
- unctuous,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- urbane,
- wheedling
- untrue
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- not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his highest opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske
- not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- capricious,
- contrary to fact,
- corrupt,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- derelict,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- devious,
- disaffected,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disloyal,
- disregardful,
- distorted,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fickle,
- flawed,
- forsworn,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hypocritical,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- in error,
- inaccurate,
- inattentive,
- inconstant,
- incorrect,
- inexact,
- inobservant,
- insincere,
- misleading,
- mistaken,
- negligent,
- nonadherent,
- noncompliant,
- nonconforming,
- nonobservant,
- not right,
- not true,
- not true to,
- of bad faith,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- recreant,
- self-contradictory,
- specious,
- straying,
- substandard,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- trothless,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- undependable,
- unfactual,
- unfaithful,
- unfounded,
- unloyal,
- unobservant,
- unorthodox,
- unprecise,
- unproved,
- unreliable,
- unsound,
- unsteadfast,
- untrustworthy,
- wide,
- wrong
- artful
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- marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- facile,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- oily,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- suave,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- weak point
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- an attribute that is inadequate or deficient related words >
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- assailability,
- bad case,
- bad habit,
- begging the question,
- besetting sin,
- blemish,
- bug,
- catch,
- chink,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- crack,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- drawback,
- empty words,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faute,
- feet of clay,
- flaw,
- foible,
- formal fallacy,
- frailty,
- heel of Achilles,
- hole,
- hysteron proteron,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- infirmity,
- insincere argument,
- kink,
- little problem,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonshine,
- moral flaw,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- penetrability,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pregnability,
- problem,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rift,
- shortcoming,
- snag,
- soft spot,
- solecism,
- something missing,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- taint,
- verbal fallacy,
- vice,
- vincibility,
- vulnerability,
- vulnerable place,
- vulnerable point,
- weak link,
- weak side,
- weakness
- Irish bull,
- anachronism,
- anacoluthon,
- antiphrasis,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- barbarism,
- begging the question,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blunder,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob,
- botch,
- breach,
- break,
- bull,
- bungle,
- catachresis,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- corruption,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- error,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faux pas,
- flub,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formal fallacy,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- hysteron proteron,
- impropriety,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- indecorum,
- indiscretion,
- infelicity,
- insincere argument,
- lapse,
- logical fallacy,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- mistake,
- misusage,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spoonerism,
- stupidity,
- ungrammaticism,
- verbal fallacy,
- vernacularism,
- violation,
- vulgarism,
- weak point
- deceitful
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- intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- collusive,
- counterfeit,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hypocritical,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knavish,
- knowing,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- misleading,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- roguish,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- 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 related words >
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- casuistic,
- cheating,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- cronk,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defrauding,
- devious,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- fake,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- snide,
- suspicious,
- swindling,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfair,
- unfrank,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unserious,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- artificial
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- artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
- not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concocted,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cute,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forced,
- garbled,
- goody-goody,
- high-sounding,
- histrionic,
- hollow,
- hyperelegant,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- insincere,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- made,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- manufactured,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- painted,
- papier-mache,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quaint,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simpering,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- studied,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- strained
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- under great stress; "her voice was strained as she asked the question" related words >
- Herculean,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- biased,
- bothered,
- burdensome,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold,
- concerned,
- cooked,
- cool,
- crushing,
- difficult,
- disaccordant,
- disquieted,
- distant,
- disturbed,
- doctored,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- effortful,
- elongated,
- extended,
- farfetched,
- fearful,
- forced,
- foreboding,
- frosty,
- garbled,
- grueling,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- icy,
- improbable,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- incompatible,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insincere,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lengthened,
- misgiving,
- misquoted,
- misrepresented,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- out-of-the-way,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- painful,
- perturbed,
- perverted,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- punishing,
- put-on,
- quite another thing,
- remote,
- self-conscious,
- slanted,
- solicitous,
- something else again,
- spun out,
- stiff,
- straggling,
- strenuous,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched tight,
- strung out,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- toilsome,
- tortured,
- tough,
- troubled,
- troublesome,
- twisted,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- uncomfortable,
- uncordial,
- under a strain,
- uneasy,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unnatural,
- unrelaxed,
- unsociable,
- uphill,
- uptight,
- wearisome,
- zealous
- deceptive
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- designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- bogus,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- colorable,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- empty,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- evasive,
- fake,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- fraudulent,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hollow,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- misleading,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- pseudo,
- questionable,
- seeming,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfactual,
- unfounded,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- untruthful,
- visionary,
- wide,
- wrong
- pretentious
collapse
- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- adulation,
- adulatory,
- allurement,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blarneying,
- bunkum,
- buttery,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- complimentary,
- conning,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- demanding,
- dunning,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flattery,
- fulsome,
- grease,
- gushing,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- insistent,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- mealymouthed,
- nagging,
- obsequious,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- palaver,
- persuading,
- persuasion,
- persuasive,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- snow job,
- soap,
- soapy,
- soft soap,
- soft-soaping,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- suasive,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- teasing,
- unctuous,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- working on
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- babble,
- babblement,
- bad case,
- balderdash,
- balls,
- baloney,
- begging the question,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blague,
- blather,
- bombast,
- bosh,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- circular argument,
- crap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- empty words,
- eyewash,
- fallacy,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flam,
- flapdoodle,
- flimflam,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- formal fallacy,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- hocus-pocus,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hooey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hysteron proteron,
- insincere argument,
- jabber,
- jargon,
- jiggery-pokery,
- logical fallacy,
- malarkey,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonshine,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- non sequitur,
- nonsense,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- prate,
- prattle,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rant,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- skimble-skamble,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vaporing,
- verbal fallacy,
- waffling,
- weak point
- moonshine
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- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
- distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine related words >
- BS,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- balderdash,
- balls,
- baloney,
- bathtub gin,
- begging the question,
- bilge,
- black-market,
- black-marketeer,
- blague,
- blah,
- blah-blah,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blether,
- blockade,
- bootleg,
- bootleg liquor,
- bop,
- bosh,
- brew,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- con,
- crap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- distill,
- drivel,
- empty words,
- eyewash,
- fallacy,
- fence,
- flam,
- flapdoodle,
- flimflam,
- formal fallacy,
- gammon,
- garbage,
- gas,
- guff,
- gup,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- home brew,
- hooch,
- hooey,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hysteron proteron,
- insincere argument,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jive,
- line,
- logical fallacy,
- malarkey,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonbeam,
- moonglow,
- moonlight,
- mountain dew,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- pseudosyllogism,
- push,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- scat,
- shine,
- shit,
- shove,
- smoke,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- stuff and nonsense,
- taradiddle,
- tommyrot,
- tripe,
- twaddle,
- verbal fallacy,
- weak point,
- white lightning,
- white mule,
- wind
- abject,
- adulation,
- adulatory,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- bunkum,
- buttery,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- compliant,
- compliment,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- envious,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fair-spoken,
- fawnery,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flattery,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- grease,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- incense,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- insinuation,
- kowtowing,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- mean,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- palaver,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- servile,
- slavish,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soap,
- soapy,
- soft soap,
- soft-soaping,
- spineless,
- sponging,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- sycophant,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- unctuous,
- wheedling,
- yielding
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- artifice,
- astute,
- cabal,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusion,
- collusive,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiracy,
- conspiring,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deep-laid plot,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- engineering,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- frame-up,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- game,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intrigue,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- nefarious,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- politic,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-up job,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- serpentine,
- setup,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stacked deck,
- stealthy,
- stratagem,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underplot,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- web of intrigue,
- wily,
- wire-pulling
- meretricious
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- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- apparent,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorable,
- colored,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gilded,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- harlot,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hustling,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- miserable,
- misleading,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- on the,
- on the town,
- orotund,
- ostensible,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pave,
- pedantic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plausible,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- prostitute,
- prostituted,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- scarlet,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- seeming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- specious,
- spectacular,
- spurious,
- stilted,
- streetwalking,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- whorish,
- worthless,
- wretched
- abject,
- adhesive,
- adulatory,
- amylaceous,
- barfy,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- crappy,
- creeping,
- curdled,
- disgusting,
- doughy,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fecal,
- feculent,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flyblown,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gloppy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- gunky,
- gushing,
- heavy,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- icky,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- maggoty,
- malodorous,
- mealymouthed,
- mephitic,
- mucilaginous,
- mucky,
- mucous,
- mushy,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- obsequious,
- odious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- oozy,
- ordurous,
- pasty,
- puky,
- putrid,
- rank,
- repulsive,
- ropy,
- rotten,
- scabby,
- scummy,
- scurfy,
- servile,
- shitty,
- slabby,
- slippery,
- slithery,
- slobbery,
- sloppy,
- sloshy,
- sludgy,
- slushy,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sposhy,
- squashy,
- squishy,
- squushy,
- starchy,
- sticky,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- sycophantic,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- toadying,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- uliginous,
- unctuous,
- vile,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- vomity,
- wheedling,
- wormy,
- yecchy
- bland
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- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
- lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" related words >
- abstract,
- adulatory,
- balmy,
- banal,
- bare,
- barren,
- blah,
- blandishing,
- blank,
- blarneying,
- bleached,
- boring,
- broad,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- calm,
- changeable,
- characterless,
- civilized,
- clear,
- collective,
- complimentary,
- composed,
- cool,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- devoid,
- disarming,
- dull,
- empty,
- faint,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- featureless,
- fine-spoken,
- flat,
- flattering,
- fulsome,
- general,
- generalized,
- generic,
- gentle,
- glib,
- good-natured,
- gushing,
- halfhearted,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- inane,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indeterminate,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- insipid,
- insouciant,
- irresolute,
- judicious,
- lenient,
- mealymouthed,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- moderate,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- nebulous,
- neutral,
- nonchalant,
- nonspecific,
- nonviolent,
- null,
- null and void,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- pacifistic,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- prudent,
- sapless,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- soapy,
- sober,
- soft,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- soothing,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- sycophantic,
- tame,
- tasteless,
- temperate,
- uncharacterized,
- unctuous,
- undifferentiated,
- unemotional,
- uninteresting,
- unrelieved,
- unruffled,
- unspecified,
- urbane,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vapid,
- void,
- waterish,
- watery,
- wheedling,
- white,
- wide,
- wishy-washy,
- with nothing inside,
- without content
- theatrical
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- suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a theatrical pose"; "one of the most theatrical figures in public life"
- of or relating to the theater related words >
- Roscius,
- Thespian art,
- actor,
- actor-proof,
- actress,
- affected,
- all-star,
- amateur theatricals,
- antagonist,
- artificial,
- bad guy,
- ballet,
- balletic,
- barnstormer,
- camp,
- campy,
- character,
- character actor,
- character man,
- character woman,
- child actor,
- cinematic,
- cinematographic,
- diseur,
- diseuse,
- dramatic,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramatical,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramatizer,
- dramaturgic,
- dramaturgy,
- emotionalistic,
- emotive,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- false,
- feeder,
- film,
- filmic,
- foil,
- forced,
- grandstand,
- ham,
- hammy,
- heavy,
- histrio,
- histrion,
- histrionic,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- hysteric,
- ingenue,
- insincere,
- juvenile,
- la-di-da,
- legitimate,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- matinee idol,
- melodramatic,
- melodramatics,
- milked,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- monodramatic,
- monologist,
- movie,
- mummer,
- nonrational,
- operatic,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overacting,
- overdone,
- overemotional,
- overplayed,
- overwrought,
- pantomime,
- pantomimist,
- play construction,
- playactor,
- player,
- pretentious,
- protean actor,
- reciter,
- repertory,
- scenic,
- sensational,
- sensationalism,
- sensationalistic,
- showy,
- soubrette,
- spectacular,
- stage,
- stage performer,
- stage player,
- stagelike,
- stageworthy,
- staginess,
- stagy,
- starstruck,
- stellar,
- stooge,
- straight man,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- theaterlike,
- theatric,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- thespian,
- thrown away,
- trouper,
- underacted,
- underplayed,
- unnatural,
- unreasoning,
- utility man,
- vaudevillian,
- villain
- honeyed
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- with honey added related words >
- achingly sweet,
- adulatory,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- ambrosial,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- bittersweet,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blissful,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- candied,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- cheerful,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- complimentary,
- congenial,
- cordial,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fine-spoken,
- fine-toned,
- flattering,
- fulsome,
- genial,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gushing,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeysweet,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- likable,
- liquid,
- mealymouthed,
- melic,
- melliferous,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- nectareous,
- nectarous,
- nice,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- rewarding,
- rich,
- sacchariferous,
- satisfying,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- songful,
- songlike,
- sonorous,
- sour-sweet,
- sugarcoated,
- sugared,
- sugarsweet,
- sugary,
- sweet,
- sweet and pungent,
- sweet and sour,
- sweet as sugar,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- sweetened,
- sweetish,
- sycophantic,
- syrupy,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- unctuous,
- welcome,
- wheedling
- gushing
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- flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters" related words >
- abundance,
- abundant,
- adulatory,
- affluent,
- amplitude,
- bathetic,
- beery,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- cloud of words,
- cloying,
- complimentary,
- confluent,
- copious,
- copiousness,
- coursing,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- decurrent,
- defluent,
- diffluent,
- diffuse,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusive,
- diffusiveness,
- effusion,
- effusive,
- effusiveness,
- extravagance,
- extravagant,
- exuberance,
- exuberant,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fecund,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- fluent,
- fluxional,
- fluxive,
- formless,
- formlessness,
- fulsome,
- gooey,
- gulfy,
- gush,
- gushy,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- maudlin,
- mawkish,
- mazy,
- mealymouthed,
- meandering,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- nostalgic,
- nostomanic,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalized,
- palilogy,
- pleonasm,
- pleonastic,
- pouring,
- prodigal,
- prodigality,
- productive,
- productivity,
- profluent,
- profuse,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- racing,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- redundant,
- reiteration,
- reiterative,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitive,
- repetitiveness,
- romantic,
- running,
- rushing,
- sappy,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalized,
- serpentine,
- slimy,
- slobbering,
- slobbery,
- sloppy,
- sluggish,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft,
- soft-soaping,
- sticky,
- streaming,
- superabundance,
- superabundant,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- surging,
- surgy,
- sycophantic,
- talkativeness,
- tautologous,
- tautology,
- tear-jerking,
- teary,
- teeming,
- teemingness,
- tidal,
- tirade,
- unctuous,
- vortical,
- wheedling
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