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tautology collapse: useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"

expletive collapse: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line

glibness collapse: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman"

filling collapse: the act of filling something; (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"; a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.; flow into something (as a container); any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench"

poised collapse: marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"

inflation collapse: the act of filling something with air; (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang; a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

disdainful collapse: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

embellishment collapse: a superfluous ornament; elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"

sociability collapse: the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows

unwieldy collapse: difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations"; difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"

unhesitating collapse: characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating"

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

showy collapse: displaying brilliance and virtuosity; marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"

grandiloquent collapse: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek; lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

ostentatious collapse: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"; of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

rhetorical collapse: concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"; of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

overlap collapse: the property of partial coincidence in time; a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"; coincide partially or wholly; "Our vacations overlap"; extend over and cover a part of; "The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city"

decorous collapse: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

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