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

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

phantasmagoric collapse: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

misdirection collapse: incorrect directions or instructions; an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge

plausible collapse: apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; "a plausible excuse"; given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments; "a plausible liar"

illusive collapse: based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

chimerical collapse: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

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"

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"

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

evasive collapse: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"; avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

treacherous collapse: dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"

untrue collapse: 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"

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"

beguiling collapse: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"

visionary collapse: a person with unusual powers of foresight; a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible

deceptive collapse: 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"

mystification collapse: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; something designed to mystify or bewilder

spectral collapse: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis"

catchy collapse: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

ambiguous collapse: having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"; having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"

equivocal collapse: uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"; open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"; open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson

unreal collapse: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"; not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"

questionable collapse: able to be refuted; subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"

erroneous collapse: containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"

meretricious collapse: like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"

apparent collapse: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

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