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prevarication
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bickering
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blague
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boggling
,
bouncer
,
canard
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
distortion
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fencing
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
hairsplitting
,
half-truth
,
hedging
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
logic-chopping
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
pettifoggery
,
pious fiction
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
straining
,
subterfuge
,
suppressio veri
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
weasel words
,
white lie
,
yarn
prostitution
collapse
offering sexual intercourse for pay
related words >
Cosa Nostra
,
Mafia
,
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
adulteration
,
befouling
,
befoulment
,
black market
,
bootlegging
,
contamination
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
corruption
,
debasement
,
defalcation
,
defilement
,
degradation
,
desecration
,
devaluation
,
diversion
,
embezzlement
,
envenoming
,
festering
,
fouling
,
gambling
,
gray market
,
harlotry
,
illegal commerce
,
illegal operations
,
illegitimate business
,
illicit business
,
infection
,
loan-sharking
,
lowering
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misapplication
,
misappropriation
,
misconduct
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
moonshining
,
narcotics traffic
,
organized crime
,
pandering
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
pimping
,
poisoning
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
profanation
,
protection racket
,
racket
,
shady dealings
,
solicitation
,
soliciting
,
streetwalking
,
suppuration
,
the rackets
,
the syndicate
,
traffic in women
,
usury
,
vice
,
violation
,
vitiation
,
white slavery
,
whoredom
,
whoremastery
,
whoremonging
poisoning
collapse
the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill
the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance
related words >
adulteration
,
autointoxication
,
bane
,
befouling
,
beheading
,
blood
,
blood poisoning
,
bloodletting
,
bloodshed
,
braining
,
burning
,
capital punishment
,
contamination
,
corruption
,
crucifixion
,
dealing death
,
decapitation
,
decollation
,
defenestration
,
defilement
,
destruction
,
destruction of life
,
dispatch
,
electrocution
,
envenoming
,
ergotism
,
euthanasia
,
execution
,
extermination
,
festering
,
flow of blood
,
food poisoning
,
fouling
,
fusillade
,
garrote
,
gassing
,
gore
,
hanging
,
hemlock
,
immolation
,
infection
,
intoxication
,
judicial murder
,
kill
,
killing
,
lapidation
,
martyrdom
,
martyrization
,
mercy killing
,
milk sickness
,
misuse
,
necktie party
,
perversion
,
pollution
,
prostitution
,
ptomaine poisoning
,
pyemia
,
ritual killing
,
ritual murder
,
sacrifice
,
sepsis
,
septic poisoning
,
septicemia
,
septicopyemia
,
shooting
,
slaughter
,
slaying
,
stoning
,
strangling
,
strangulation
,
suppuration
,
taking of life
,
the ax
,
the block
,
the chair
,
the gallows
,
the gas chamber
,
the guillotine
,
the hot seat
,
the rope
,
toxemia
,
venenation
,
vitiation
circularity
collapse
the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure
related words >
aduncity
,
apparent soundness
,
aquilinity
,
arching
,
arcuation
,
casuistry
,
circling
,
circuition
,
circuitousness
,
circuitry
,
circulation
,
circumambience
,
circumambiency
,
circumambulation
,
circumflexion
,
circumlocution
,
circummigration
,
circumnavigation
,
concameration
,
concavity
,
convexity
,
convolution
,
crookedness
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
evasive reasoning
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
gyre
,
gyring
,
hookedness
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
indirection
,
insincerity
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
meandering
,
misapplication
,
mystification
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
orbit
,
orbiting
,
oversubtlety
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
rationalization
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
roundaboutness
,
rounding
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
spiral
,
spiraling
,
subtlety
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
turn
,
turning
,
vaulting
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
wheeling
hyperbole
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extravagant exaggeration
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
boundlessness
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
coloring
,
deformation
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
expansion
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
garbling
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbolism
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
litotes
,
magnification
,
miscoloring
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overkill
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overstatement
,
perversion
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
radicalism
,
sensationalism
,
slanting
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
heresy
collapse
a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Arianism
,
Bohemianism
,
Catharism
,
Ebionitism
,
Erastianism
,
Gnosticism
,
Jovinianism
,
Lollardy
,
Manichaeanism
,
Manichaeism
,
Monophysism
,
Monophysitism
,
Pelagianism
,
Waldensianism
,
Wyclifism
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
agnosticism
,
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
antinomianism
,
antinomy
,
apostasy
,
asymmetry
,
atheism
,
beatnikism
,
defection
,
defectiveness
,
delusion
,
denial
,
deviancy
,
disbelief
,
discredit
,
disproportion
,
disproportionateness
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
distortion
,
emanatism
,
equivocality
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false doctrine
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
fringiness
,
hamartia
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
hippiedom
,
hylotheism
,
illusion
,
impiety
,
inability to believe
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
incredulity
,
infidelity
,
irreconcilability
,
minimifidianism
,
misapplication
,
misbelief
,
misconstruction
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
nonbelief
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformism
,
nonconformity
,
nullifidianism
,
originality
,
oxymoron
,
pantheism
,
paradox
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
rejection
,
revisionism
,
schism
,
self-contradiction
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
unbelief
,
unbelievingness
,
unconformability
,
unconformity
,
unconventionality
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
wrong
,
wrongness
inaccuracy
collapse
the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
related words >
abstractionism
,
adulteration
,
allowance
,
amorphousness
,
approximation
,
blobbiness
,
blurriness
,
broadness
,
coloring
,
defectibility
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deformation
,
deviation
,
disorder
,
distortion
,
erroneousness
,
exaggeration
,
expressionism
,
fallibility
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
faultiness
,
fogginess
,
fuzziness
,
garbling
,
generality
,
haziness
,
hyperbole
,
ill-definedness
,
immaturity
,
impairment
,
imperfection
,
imprecision
,
impurity
,
inaccurateness
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
inchoateness
,
incoherence
,
incompleteness
,
incorrectness
,
indecisiveness
,
indefinableness
,
indefiniteness
,
indeterminateness
,
indistinctness
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
injustice
,
lack
,
laxity
,
litotes
,
looseness
,
mediocrity
,
miscoloring
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
mistiness
,
negligence
,
nonrealism
,
obscuration
,
obscurity
,
overdrawing
,
overstatement
,
patchiness
,
perversion
,
predictable error
,
probable error
,
shapelessness
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
sketchiness
,
slanting
,
standard deviation
,
sweepingness
,
tolerance
,
twisting
,
unclearness
,
unconscientiousness
,
uncorrectness
,
uncriticalness
,
understatement
,
undevelopment
,
unevenness
,
unexactingness
,
unfactualness
,
unfinicalness
,
unfussiness
,
unmeticulousness
,
unparticularness
,
unperfectedness
,
unpreciseness
,
unpunctiliousness
,
unpunctuality
,
unrigorousness
,
unscrupulousness
,
unsoundness
,
vagueness
,
want
pollution
collapse
undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities
related words >
abomination
,
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
adulteration
,
air
,
atrocity
,
bad
,
badness
,
bane
,
bastardizing
,
befouling
,
befoulment
,
besmirchment
,
blight
,
contamination
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
corruption
,
crying evil
,
cutting
,
damage
,
debasement
,
defalcation
,
defilement
,
desecration
,
despoliation
,
destruction
,
detriment
,
dilution
,
dirtying
,
diversion
,
doctoring
,
embezzlement
,
envenoming
,
evil
,
festering
,
fortifying
,
fouling
,
grievance
,
harm
,
harmfulness
,
havoc
,
health hazard
,
hurt
,
ill
,
infection
,
injuriousness
,
injury
,
insalubriousness
,
insalubrity
,
lacing
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
menace to health
,
misapplication
,
misappropriation
,
mischief
,
misconduct
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
noise pollution
,
noisomeness
,
noxiousness
,
outrage
,
pathenogenicity
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
poison
,
poisoning
,
poor stewardship
,
profanation
,
prostitution
,
ritual uncleanness
,
soiling
,
spiking
,
spoiling
,
staining
,
sullying
,
suppuration
,
tainting
,
the worst
,
toxin
,
unhealthfulness
,
unhealthiness
,
unsalutariness
,
unwholesomeness
,
venom
,
vexation
,
violation
,
vitiation
,
water
,
watering
,
woe
,
wrong
misconstruction
collapse
an ungrammatical constituent
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
abuse of terms
,
antiphrasis
,
barbarism
,
catachresis
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
contorting
,
corruption
,
defectiveness
,
delusion
,
deviancy
,
distortion
,
eisegesis
,
equivocation
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
error in judgment
,
exaggeration
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falseness
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
garbling
,
gloss
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
illusion
,
infelicity
,
injudiciousness
,
malapropism
,
malentendu
,
malobservation
,
misapplication
,
misappreciation
,
misapprehension
,
miscalculation
,
miscitation
,
miscoloring
,
miscomputation
,
misconception
,
misconjecture
,
misdirection
,
misdoing
,
misestimation
,
misevaluation
,
misexplanation
,
misexplication
,
misexposition
,
misfeasance
,
misintelligence
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misquotation
,
misreading
,
misrendering
,
misrepresentation
,
missaying
,
misstatement
,
mistranslation
,
misunderstanding
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
misuse of words
,
misvaluation
,
peccancy
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
poor judgment
,
prevarication
,
self-contradiction
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
skewed judgment
,
slanting
,
solecism
,
squeezing
,
straining
,
torturing
,
twisting
,
ungrammaticism
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
wrenching
,
wrong
,
wrong construction
,
wrong impression
,
wrongness
mystification
collapse
the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
something designed to mystify or bewilder
related words >
Chinese puzzle
,
amorphousness
,
anagoge
,
anagogics
,
anthroposophy
,
apparent soundness
,
burial
,
burying
,
cabala
,
cabalism
,
casuistry
,
circularity
,
closed
,
clouding
,
college of Laputa
,
concealedness
,
concealment
,
corruption
,
covering
,
covering up
,
covertness
,
dark
,
darkening
,
darkness
,
deception
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
esotericism
,
esoterics
,
esoterism
,
esotery
,
evasive reasoning
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
fog
,
fogginess
,
fuzziness
,
hiddenness
,
hiding
,
hocus-pocus
,
indeterminateness
,
indistinctness
,
insincerity
,
interment
,
invisibility
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
masking
,
misapplication
,
misdirection
,
misguidance
,
misinformation
,
misinstruction
,
misknowledge
,
misleading
,
mist
,
misteaching
,
mistiness
,
mumbo jumbo
,
murk
,
murkiness
,
mystery
,
mysticism
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
obscuration
,
obscurement
,
obscurity
,
occultation
,
occultism
,
opacity
,
oversubtlety
,
perplexity
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
putting away
,
rationalization
,
screening
,
secrecy
,
secretion
,
shapelessness
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
subterfuge
,
subtlety
,
symbolics
,
symbolism
,
unclarity
,
unclearness
,
uncommunicativeness
,
unplainness
,
vagueness
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
why
,
yoga
,
yogeeism
,
yogism
sophistication
collapse
falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
related words >
accomplishments
,
acquired taste
,
acquisition of knowledge
,
acquisitions
,
apparent soundness
,
appreciation of excellence
,
attainments
,
awareness
,
background
,
blaseness
,
casuistry
,
choiceness
,
circularity
,
civilized taste
,
civilizedness
,
complexity
,
cosmopolitanism
,
cultivated taste
,
cultivation
,
culture
,
daintiness
,
delicacy
,
discernment
,
discrimination
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
edification
,
education
,
elegance
,
enlightenment
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
evasive reasoning
,
excellence
,
experience
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
fastidiousness
,
finesse
,
good taste
,
grace
,
gracefulness
,
gracility
,
graciosity
,
graciousness
,
illumination
,
insincerity
,
instruction
,
intricacy
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
knowledge
,
knowledgeability
,
learning
,
liberal education
,
misapplication
,
mystification
,
niceness
,
nicety
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
oversubtlety
,
past experience
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
poise
,
polish
,
practical knowledge
,
practice
,
quality
,
rationalization
,
refinement
,
sagacity
,
savoir faire
,
seasoning
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
store of knowledge
,
style
,
subtlety
,
taste
,
tastefulness
,
tempering
,
uncullibility
,
undeceivability
,
ungullibility
,
unhoaxability
,
unseduceability
,
urbanity
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
worldliness
,
worldly wisdom
misconduct
collapse
bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf
related words >
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
bad policy
,
badness
,
be negligent
,
befoulment
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
crime
,
criminal tendency
,
criminality
,
criminosis
,
debasement
,
defalcation
,
defilement
,
desecration
,
discourtesy
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorderly conduct
,
disruption
,
disruptiveness
,
diversion
,
do amiss
,
embezzlement
,
evil courses
,
evildoing
,
feloniousness
,
fouling
,
frowned-upon behavior
,
hooliganism
,
horseplay
,
impolicy
,
impropriety
,
inexpedience
,
inexpediency
,
lawbreaking
,
maladminister
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misadminister
,
misadministration
,
misapplication
,
misapply
,
misappropriation
,
misbehavior
,
miscall
,
miscite
,
miscount
,
misdeal
,
misdemeanor
,
misdirect
,
misdirection
,
misdoing
,
misemploy
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
misfield
,
misgovern
,
misgovernment
,
misguidance
,
misguide
,
mishandle
,
mishandling
,
mismanage
,
mismanagement
,
misplay
,
misprint
,
misprision
,
misprision of treason
,
misquote
,
misread
,
misreport
,
misrule
,
misspell
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
naughtiness
,
neglect
,
negligence
,
nonfeasance
,
nonsanctioned behavior
,
omission
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
positive misprision
,
profanation
,
prostitution
,
roughhouse
,
rowdiness
,
rowdyism
,
ruffianism
,
sin
,
thou scarlet sin
,
vandalism
,
venial sin
,
vice
,
viciousness
,
violation
,
wrong conduct
,
wrongdoing
speciousness
collapse
an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
related words >
acting
,
affectation
,
apparent character
,
apparent soundness
,
appearance
,
appearances
,
attitudinizing
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
casuistry
,
cheating
,
circularity
,
color
,
coloring
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
delusion
,
disguise
,
disingenuousness
,
display
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
distortion
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
evasive reasoning
,
exteriors
,
external appearance
,
externals
,
facade
,
face
,
fakery
,
faking
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigning
,
feint
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
gaudiness
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
imposture
,
insincerity
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
masquerade
,
mere externals
,
meretriciousness
,
misapplication
,
mystification
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
ostent
,
ostentation
,
outward appearance
,
outward show
,
oversubtlety
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
playacting
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
public image
,
rationalization
,
representation
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
spuriousness
,
subtlety
,
superficiality
,
surface appearance
,
surface show
,
vain show
,
varnish
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
window dressing
malfeasance
collapse
wrongful conduct by a public official
related words >
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
atrocity
,
bad policy
,
befoulment
,
breach
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
crime
,
crime against humanity
,
criminal tendency
,
criminality
,
criminosis
,
deadly sin
,
debasement
,
defalcation
,
defilement
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
desecration
,
diversion
,
embezzlement
,
enormity
,
error
,
evil
,
evil courses
,
evildoing
,
failure
,
fault
,
feloniousness
,
felony
,
fouling
,
genocide
,
guilty act
,
heavy sin
,
impolicy
,
impropriety
,
indiscretion
,
inexpedience
,
inexpediency
,
inexpiable sin
,
iniquity
,
injury
,
injustice
,
lapse
,
lawbreaking
,
maladministration
,
malefaction
,
malpractice
,
malum
,
malversation
,
minor wrong
,
misadministration
,
misapplication
,
misappropriation
,
misconduct
,
misdeed
,
misdemeanor
,
misdirection
,
misdoing
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
misgovernment
,
misguidance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
misprision
,
misprision of treason
,
misrule
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
mortal sin
,
neglect
,
negligence
,
nonfeasance
,
offense
,
omission
,
outrage
,
peccadillo
,
peccancy
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
positive misprision
,
profanation
,
prostitution
,
sin
,
sin of commission
,
sin of omission
,
sinful act
,
slip
,
thou scarlet sin
,
tort
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trip
,
unutterable sin
,
venial sin
,
vice
,
viciousness
,
violation
,
wrong
,
wrong conduct
,
wrongdoing
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
related words >
Atticism
,
agile wit
,
anamorphosis
,
ape
,
bad likeness
,
belie
,
black humor
,
botch
,
burlesque
,
camouflage
,
caricature
,
color
,
comedy
,
copy
,
copying
,
corruption
,
counterfeiting
,
daub
,
debasement
,
deride
,
disguise
,
distort
,
distortion
,
dry wit
,
dummy
,
duplication
,
emulation
,
esprit
,
exaggerate
,
facsimile
,
fakery
,
falsify
,
farce
,
fleer
,
following
,
forgery
,
garble
,
guy
,
hit off on
,
hit-off
,
humor
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
imposture
,
impression
,
irony
,
kid
,
knockoff
,
lampoon
,
laugh at
,
make fun of
,
mimesis
,
mimic
,
mimicry
,
mirroring
,
miscolor
,
misquote
,
misreport
,
misrepresent
,
misstate
,
misteach
,
mock
,
mock-up
,
mockery
,
model
,
nimble wit
,
onomatopoeia
,
overdraw
,
overstate
,
paraphrase
,
pastiche
,
perversion
,
pervert
,
pillory
,
plagiarism
,
plagiary
,
pleasantry
,
poke fun at
,
poor imitation
,
pretty wit
,
quick wit
,
ready wit
,
repetition
,
replica
,
representation
,
reproduction
,
rib
,
ridicule
,
roast
,
salt
,
sarcasm
,
satire
,
satirize
,
savor of wit
,
scoff at
,
scratch
,
scribble
,
send up
,
simulation
,
slant
,
slapstick
,
slapstick humor
,
sneer at
,
spoof
,
squib
,
subtle wit
,
take off
,
take off on
,
take-off
,
takeoff
,
tease
,
travesty
,
twist
,
twit
,
understate
,
version
,
visual humor
,
warp
,
wicked imitation
,
wit
,
wrench
vicious circle
collapse
an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
related words >
absurdity
,
aimlessness
,
annular muscle
,
annulus
,
apparent soundness
,
areola
,
aureole
,
bootlessness
,
casuistry
,
chain of circumstances
,
chain reaction
,
chaplet
,
chapter of accidents
,
circle
,
circuit
,
circularity
,
circumference
,
circus
,
closed circle
,
concatenation of events
,
corona
,
coronet
,
crown
,
cycle
,
diadem
,
discus
,
disingenuousness
,
disk
,
distortion
,
emptiness
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
eternal return
,
evasive reasoning
,
fairy ring
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
fatuity
,
feast and famine
,
fecklessness
,
fruitlessness
,
futility
,
garland
,
glory
,
halo
,
hollowness
,
impotence
,
inanity
,
ineffectiveness
,
ineffectuality
,
inefficacy
,
ins and outs
,
insincerity
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
lasso
,
logical circle
,
loop
,
looplet
,
magic circle
,
meaninglessness
,
misapplication
,
mystification
,
noose
,
nugacity
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
orbit
,
otiosity
,
oversubtlety
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
pointlessness
,
profitlessness
,
purposelessness
,
radius
,
rat race
,
rationalization
,
ring
,
rondelle
,
round
,
roundel
,
saucer
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
sphincter
,
subtlety
,
the absurd
,
triviality
,
unproductiveness
,
unprofitability
,
unprofitableness
,
ups and downs
,
valuelessness
,
vanity
,
vicious reasoning
,
vicissitudes
,
vicissitudes of fortune
,
wheel
,
worthlessness
,
wreath
insincerity
collapse
the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
related words >
Tartuffery
,
Tartuffism
,
affectation
,
affectedness
,
airs
,
airs and graces
,
apparent soundness
,
artfulness
,
artificiality
,
cant
,
casuistry
,
circularity
,
craftiness
,
credibility gap
,
crossed fingers
,
deceitfulness
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
emptiness
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
evasive reasoning
,
facade
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false front
,
false piety
,
false show
,
falseheartedness
,
falseness
,
feigned belief
,
flattering tongue
,
forswearing
,
fraud
,
front
,
goody-goodiness
,
gush
,
hollow mockery
,
hollowness
,
hypocrisy
,
image
,
intrigue
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
mannerism
,
mealymouthedness
,
mere show
,
misapplication
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
mystification
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
oiliness
,
oversubtlety
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
pharisaicalness
,
pharisaism
,
philosophism
,
pietism
,
pietisticalness
,
piety
,
piousness
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
prunes and prisms
,
public image
,
put-on
,
putting on airs
,
rationalization
,
religionism
,
religiosity
,
sanctimoniousness
,
sanctimony
,
self-righteousness
,
sham
,
sharp practice
,
show
,
slobber
,
smarm
,
snivel
,
snuffle
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
stylishness
,
subtlety
,
that flattering unction
,
tongue in cheek
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
unction
,
unctuousness
,
unfrankness
,
unnaturalness
,
unsincereness
,
untruthfulness
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
unorthodoxy
collapse
the quality of being unorthodox
any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position
related words >
Bohemianism
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
antinomy
,
asymmetry
,
beatnikism
,
capriciousness
,
changeability
,
changeableness
,
choppiness
,
contrariety
,
contrast
,
dappleness
,
defectiveness
,
delusion
,
departure
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
difference
,
differentiation
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
disconformity
,
discongruity
,
discordance
,
discrepancy
,
discreteness
,
disorder
,
disparity
,
disproportion
,
disproportionateness
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dissimilarity
,
dissonance
,
distinction
,
distinctness
,
distortion
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
divergency
,
diversification
,
diversity
,
equivocality
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
far cry
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
fringiness
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
hippiedom
,
illusion
,
inaccordance
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
inconstancy
,
inequality
,
inharmoniousness
,
inharmony
,
instability
,
irreconcilability
,
irregularity
,
jerkiness
,
mercuriality
,
misapplication
,
misbelief
,
misconstruction
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
mixture
,
motleyness
,
mutability
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformism
,
nonconformity
,
nonstandardization
,
nonuniformity
,
odds
,
opposition
,
originality
,
otherness
,
oxymoron
,
paradox
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
pluralism
,
raggedness
,
revisionism
,
schism
,
self-contradiction
,
separateness
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
unconformability
,
unconformism
,
unconformity
,
unconventionality
,
unevenness
,
unlikeness
,
unsteadiness
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
variability
,
variance
,
variation
,
variegation
,
variety
,
variousness
,
versatility
,
wavering
,
wrong
,
wrongness
sin
collapse
an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
estrangement from god
the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
(Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview"
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
abomination
,
atrocity
,
bad
,
breach
,
commit sin
,
crime
,
crime against humanity
,
criminal tendency
,
criminality
,
criminosis
,
deadly sin
,
debt
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
delinquency
,
delusion
,
demerit
,
dereliction
,
deviancy
,
diablerie
,
disgrace
,
distortion
,
do amiss
,
do wrong
,
enormity
,
err
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
evil
,
evil courses
,
evildoing
,
failure
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
feloniousness
,
felony
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
genocide
,
guilty act
,
hamartia
,
heavy sin
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
illusion
,
impropriety
,
indiscretion
,
inexpiable sin
,
infamy
,
iniquity
,
injury
,
injustice
,
knavery
,
lapse
,
lawbreaking
,
malefaction
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malum
,
malversation
,
minor wrong
,
misapplication
,
misconduct
,
misconstruction
,
misdeed
,
misdemeanor
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misprision
,
misprision of treason
,
mortal sin
,
nonfeasance
,
obliquity
,
offend
,
offense
,
omission
,
outrage
,
peccadillo
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
positive misprision
,
reprobacy
,
scandal
,
self-contradiction
,
shame
,
shortcoming
,
sin of commission
,
sin of omission
,
sinful act
,
sinfulness
,
slip
,
thou scarlet sin
,
tort
,
transgress
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trip
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
unutterable sin
,
venial sin
,
vice
,
viciousness
,
villainy
,
wickedness
,
wrong
,
wrong conduct
,
wrongdoing
,
wrongness
festering
collapse
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
related words >
abscess
,
adulteration
,
algesia
,
algetic
,
angry
,
aposteme
,
bad
,
bed sore
,
befouling
,
blain
,
bleb
,
blister
,
boil
,
bubo
,
bulla
,
bunion
,
burning
,
canker
,
canker sore
,
cankered
,
carbuncle
,
carious
,
chafed
,
chancre
,
chancroid
,
chilblain
,
cold sore
,
contamination
,
corrupt
,
corruption
,
decayed
,
decomposed
,
defilement
,
envenoming
,
eschar
,
felon
,
fester
,
fever blister
,
fiery
,
fistula
,
foul
,
fouling
,
furuncle
,
furunculus
,
galled
,
gangrened
,
gangrenous
,
gathering
,
gleet
,
gone bad
,
gumboil
,
hemorrhoids
,
ichor
,
infection
,
inflamed
,
inflammation
,
irritated
,
irritation
,
kibe
,
lesion
,
leukorrhea
,
matter
,
mattering
,
misuse
,
mortified
,
necrosed
,
necrotic
,
papula
,
papule
,
paronychia
,
parulis
,
peccant
,
peccant humor
,
perversion
,
petechia
,
piles
,
pimple
,
pock
,
poisoning
,
pollution
,
polyp
,
prostitution
,
purulence
,
purulent
,
pus
,
pussy
,
pustule
,
putrefied
,
putrescent
,
putrid
,
rankling
,
raw
,
red
,
rising
,
rotten
,
rotting
,
running
,
sanies
,
scab
,
sensitive
,
sensitiveness
,
smarting
,
soft chancre
,
sore
,
sore spot
,
soreness
,
sphacelated
,
spoiled
,
stigma
,
sty
,
suppurating
,
suppuration
,
suppurative
,
swelling
,
tender
,
tenderness
,
tingling
,
tubercle
,
ulcer
,
ulcerated
,
ulceration
,
vitiation
,
wale
,
welt
,
wheal
,
whelk
,
whitlow
,
wound
injustice
collapse
an unjust act
the practice of being unjust or unfair
related words >
abstractionism
,
asymmetry
,
atrocity
,
bias
,
bigotry
,
breach
,
coloring
,
contrariety
,
crime
,
crime against humanity
,
damage
,
deadly sin
,
deformation
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
difference
,
discrimination
,
disequilibrium
,
disparity
,
disproportion
,
disservice
,
distortion
,
enormity
,
error
,
evil
,
exaggeration
,
expressionism
,
failure
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
fault
,
favoritism
,
felony
,
garbling
,
genocide
,
great wrong
,
grievance
,
gross injustice
,
guilty act
,
harm
,
heavy sin
,
heterogeneity
,
hurt
,
hyperbole
,
imbalance
,
imposition
,
impropriety
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
indiscretion
,
inequality
,
inequitableness
,
inequity
,
inexpiable sin
,
infraction
,
infringement
,
iniquity
,
injury
,
insufficiency
,
irregularity
,
lapse
,
litotes
,
malefaction
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malum
,
minor wrong
,
miscarriage of justice
,
mischief
,
miscoloring
,
misdeed
,
misdemeanor
,
misdrawing
,
misfeasance
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
mortal sin
,
nonfeasance
,
nonrealism
,
nonuniformity
,
odds
,
offense
,
omission
,
one-sidedness
,
outrage
,
overbalance
,
overdrawing
,
overstatement
,
partiality
,
partisanship
,
peccadillo
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
prejudice
,
raw deal
,
ruin
,
shortcoming
,
sin
,
sin of commission
,
sin of omission
,
sinful act
,
slanting
,
slip
,
tort
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trip
,
twisting
,
unbalance
,
understatement
,
unevenness
,
unfair discrimination
,
unfairness
,
unjustness
,
unutterable sin
,
venial sin
,
villainy
,
violation
,
wrong
,
wrongdoing
misapplication
collapse
wrong use or application
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
abuse of terms
,
apparent soundness
,
befoulment
,
casuistry
,
catachresis
,
circularity
,
contorting
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
debasement
,
defalcation
,
defectiveness
,
defilement
,
delusion
,
desecration
,
deviancy
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
diversion
,
eisegesis
,
embezzlement
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
evasive reasoning
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
fouling
,
garbling
,
gloss
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
illusion
,
insincerity
,
invalid linking
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
maladministration
,
malentendu
,
malfeasance
,
malobservation
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
mesalliance
,
misalliance
,
misapplicability
,
misapprehension
,
misappropriation
,
miscitation
,
misconception
,
misconduct
,
misconnection
,
misconstruction
,
misdoing
,
misemployment
,
misexplanation
,
misexplication
,
misexposition
,
misfeasance
,
mishandling
,
misintelligence
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
mismanagement
,
misquotation
,
misreading
,
misreference
,
misrelation
,
misrendering
,
mistranslation
,
misunderstanding
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
misuse of words
,
mystification
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
oversubtlety
,
peccancy
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
pilfering
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
profanation
,
prostitution
,
rationalization
,
self-contradiction
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
squeezing
,
subtlety
,
torturing
,
twisting
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
violation
,
wrenching
,
wrong
,
wrongness
straining
collapse
related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
bolting
,
breaking point
,
cautious
,
clarification
,
colature
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
corruption
,
demurring
,
destructive distillation
,
diffident
,
distension
,
distillation
,
distortion
,
draining
,
drudging
,
edulcoration
,
effusion
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
equivocation
,
essentialization
,
exaggeration
,
excretion
,
exfiltration
,
exhausting
,
extraction
,
extravasation
,
extreme tension
,
exudation
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
faltering
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
grueling
,
hardworking
,
haul
,
heave
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
inflation
,
jibbing
,
killing
,
laboring
,
leaching
,
lixiviation
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdirection
,
misinterpretation
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misuse
,
ooze
,
oozing
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overexertion
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstress
,
overstretching
,
overtaxing
,
pegging
,
percolating
,
percolation
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
prevarication
,
pull
,
punishing
,
purification
,
rack
,
refinement
,
riddling
,
screening
,
scrupling
,
seep
,
seepage
,
separation
,
shilly-shallying
,
sieving
,
sifting
,
slanting
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
snapping point
,
spiritualization
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
strain
,
stress
,
stress and strain
,
stressful
,
stressfulness
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
striving
,
struggling
,
sublimation
,
sweating
,
swelling
,
taxing
,
tension
,
tentative
,
timid
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toiling
,
toilsome
,
torturing
,
transudation
,
trying
,
tug
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
weep
,
weeping
,
winnowing
,
working
casuistry
collapse
moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
related words >
Christian ethics
,
Stoicism
,
aesthetics
,
altruistic ethics
,
apologetics
,
apologia
,
apology
,
apparent soundness
,
aretaics
,
argument
,
argumentation
,
axiology
,
bicker
,
bickering
,
categorical imperative
,
circularity
,
comparative ethics
,
contention
,
controversy
,
cosmology
,
crossed fingers
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defense
,
delusion
,
deontology
,
disingenuousness
,
disputation
,
dispute
,
distortion
,
egoistic ethics
,
empiricism
,
emptiness
,
epistemology
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
ethical formalism
,
ethical philosophy
,
ethics
,
ethology
,
ethonomics
,
eudaemonics
,
evasive reasoning
,
evolutionism
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
first philosophy
,
flyting
,
gnosiology
,
golden rule
,
hassle
,
hedonism
,
hollow mockery
,
hollowness
,
hubbub
,
insincerity
,
intuitionism
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
litigation
,
logic
,
logomachy
,
mental philosophy
,
metaphysics
,
misapplication
,
mockery
,
moral philosophy
,
mystification
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
ontology
,
oversubtlety
,
paper war
,
passage of arms
,
perfectionism
,
perversion
,
phenomenology
,
philosophastry
,
philosophic doctrine
,
philosophic system
,
philosophic theory
,
philosophical inquiry
,
philosophical speculation
,
philosophism
,
philosophy
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
polemic
,
polemics
,
rationalization
,
rhubarb
,
school of philosophy
,
school of thought
,
science of being
,
set-to
,
situation ethics
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
spuriousness
,
subtlety
,
theory of beauty
,
theory of knowledge
,
tongue in cheek
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
unfrankness
,
utilitarianism
,
value theory
,
verbal engagement
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
war of words
,
wrangling
vice
collapse
a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
related words >
advocate
,
alter ego
,
alternate
,
amicus curiae
,
as proxy for
,
as representing
,
attorney
,
backup
,
backup man
,
bad habit
,
badness
,
besetting sin
,
blemish
,
champion
,
corruption
,
crime
,
criminal tendency
,
criminality
,
criminosis
,
debasement
,
debauchery
,
decay
,
defect
,
deficiency
,
degeneracy
,
degradation
,
depravity
,
deputy
,
discourtesy
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorderly conduct
,
disruption
,
disruptiveness
,
dummy
,
evil
,
evil courses
,
evildoing
,
executive officer
,
exponent
,
failing
,
failure
,
fault
,
feloniousness
,
figurehead
,
flaw
,
foible
,
for
,
frailty
,
frowned-upon behavior
,
hooliganism
,
horseplay
,
ill
,
immorality
,
imperfection
,
impropriety
,
in behalf of
,
in lieu of
,
in place of
,
in preference to
,
indecency
,
infirmity
,
iniquity
,
lawbreaking
,
licentiousness
,
lieutenant
,
locum
,
locum tenens
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misbehavior
,
misconduct
,
misdemeanor
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misprision
,
misprision of treason
,
moral flaw
,
naughtiness
,
nonsanctioned behavior
,
on behalf of
,
paranymph
,
perversion
,
pinch hitter
,
pleader
,
positive misprision
,
procurator
,
profligacy
,
proxy
,
replacing
,
representative
,
rot
,
roughhouse
,
rowdiness
,
rowdyism
,
ruffianism
,
second in command
,
secondary
,
shortcoming
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
squalor
,
stand-in
,
substitute
,
surrogate
,
thou scarlet sin
,
transgression
,
unchastity
,
understudy
,
utility man
,
vandalism
,
venality
,
venial sin
,
vicar
,
vicar general
,
vicegerent
,
viciousness
,
villainy
,
weak point
,
weak side
,
weakness
,
wickedness
,
wrong
,
wrong conduct
,
wrongdoing
illusion
collapse
something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
an erroneous mental representation
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
air
,
airy nothing
,
apparition
,
appearance
,
bamboozlement
,
bedevilment
,
befooling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
bluffing
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
calculated deception
,
captivation
,
chimera
,
circumvention
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defectiveness
,
defrauding
,
delirium
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
deviancy
,
distortion
,
dream
,
dupery
,
eidolon
,
enchantment
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrancement
,
entrapment
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
ether
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fascination
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
fiction
,
figment
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
hallucination
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
hoodwinking
,
idle fancy
,
ignis fatuus
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
kidding
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
maya
,
mirage
,
misapplication
,
misapprehension
,
misconception
,
misconstruction
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
mist
,
mistake
,
myth
,
obsession
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
phantasm
,
phantasmagoria
,
phantom
,
pipe
,
pipe dream
,
possession
,
putting on
,
rainbow
,
romance
,
seeming
,
self-contradiction
,
self-deception
,
semblance
,
shadow
,
sick fancy
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
smoke
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spirit
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
thick-coming fancies
,
thin air
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trip
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
vapor
,
victimization
,
vision
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
witchery
,
wrong
,
wrongness
equivocation
collapse
falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
intentionally vague or ambiguous
related words >
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
amphibology
,
antinomy
,
apparent soundness
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bickering
,
boggling
,
captiousness
,
casuistry
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
circularity
,
circumvention
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
counterword
,
defense mechanism
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
dodge
,
dodging
,
double
,
double entendre
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocalness
,
equivoque
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasive reasoning
,
evasiveness
,
exaggeration
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
fencing
,
fluctuation
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
insincerity
,
irony
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
jink
,
logic-chopping
,
lying
,
misapplication
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
mystification
,
neutrality
,
nit-picking
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
oscillation
,
oversubtlety
,
oxymoron
,
paltering
,
paradox
,
parrying
,
pendulation
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
pettifoggery
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
prevarication
,
prevention
,
pun
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
rationalization
,
refraining
,
self-contradiction
,
shifting
,
shilly-shally
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidestepping
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
squinting construction
,
straining
,
subterfuge
,
subtlety
,
suppressio veri
,
tergiversation
,
the runaround
,
trichoschistism
,
vacillation
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
wavering
,
weasel word
,
weasel words
,
wobbling
,
zigzag
degeneration
collapse
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
related words >
abandon
,
abandonment
,
abjection
,
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
apostasy
,
atrophy
,
betterment
,
break
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
closed loop
,
closed sequence
,
comedown
,
constructive change
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
current-control circuit
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
defection
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degenerative change
,
degradation
,
demoralization
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depravity
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
devolution
,
difference
,
discontinuity
,
dissoluteness
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
downfall
,
downgrade
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
feedback
,
fitting
,
flip-flop
,
flip-flop circuit
,
gradual change
,
improvement
,
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