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pretending
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airs
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disguise
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display
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excuse
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fairy tale
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faking
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fiction
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impression
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invention
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make-believe
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mask
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masquerade
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ostentation
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pose
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posturing
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pretending
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pretension
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pretext
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ruse
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hypocritical
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professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
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Pecksniffian
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Tartuffian
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Tartuffish
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affected
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alleged
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ambidextrous
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assumed
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avowed
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bland
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canting
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casuistic
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claimed
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counterfeited
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deceitful
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deceiving
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deceptive
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dishonest
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dissembling
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double
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double-dealing
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double-faced
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double-minded
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double-tongued
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doublehearted
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fake
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faked
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faking
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false
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feigned
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feigning
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glib
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goody
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goody-goody
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holier-than-thou
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hypocritic
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in name only
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insincere
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left-handed
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lying
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mealymouthed
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mendacious
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moralistic
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oily
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ostensible
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pecksniffian
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perfidious
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pharisaic
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pharisaical
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pharisean
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phony
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pietistic
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pious
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pretended
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pretending
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pretexted
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professed
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purported
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put-on
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sanctified
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sanctimonious
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self-righteous
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sham
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simon-pure
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simulated
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smooth
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smooth-spoken
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smooth-tongued
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sniveling
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so-called
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specious
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spurious
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treacherous
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two-faced
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unctuous
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underhand
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untrustworthy
pretension
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a false or unsupportable quality
the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
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Barnumism
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acting
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affectation
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affectedness
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airs
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airs and graces
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alibi
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ambitions
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ambitiousness
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apology
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appearance
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appurtenance
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artificiality
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aspiration
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attitudinizing
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authority
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bedizenment
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big talk
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birthright
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blind
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bluff
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bluffing
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charade
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cheating
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claim
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cloak
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color
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coloring
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conjugal right
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cover story
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cover-up
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deception
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delusion
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demand
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device
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disguise
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dissemblance
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dissembling
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dissimulation
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divine right
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droit
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due
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excuse
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facade
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face
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faculty
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fakery
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faking
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false air
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false front
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false show
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falsity
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feigned belief
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feigning
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feint
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flashiness
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flatulence
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flatulency
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four-flushing
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fraud
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front
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fulsomeness
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garishness
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gaudiness
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gilt
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gloss
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grandiloquence
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grandioseness
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grandiosity
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guise
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handle
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high-flown diction
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humbug
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humbuggery
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hypocrisy
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image
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imposture
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inalienable right
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inflatedness
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inflation
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insincerity
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interest
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lame excuse
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lexiphanicism
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locus standi
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loftiness
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lofty affectations
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luridness
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magniloquence
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make-believe
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mannerism
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mask
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masquerade
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mere rhetoric
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mere show
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meretriciousness
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natural right
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orotundity
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ostensible motive
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ostent
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ostentation
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ostentatious complexity
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ostentatiousness
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outward show
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pageant
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platitudinous ponderosity
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playacting
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polysyllabic profundity
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pomposity
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pompous prolixity
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pompousness
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pontification
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poor excuse
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pose
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posing
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posture
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power
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prerogative
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prescription
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presumptive right
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pretending
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pretense
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pretensions
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pretentiousness
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pretext
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proper claim
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property right
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prose run mad
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protestation
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prunes and prisms
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public image
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public motive
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put-off
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put-on
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putting on airs
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refuge
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representation
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rhetoric
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rhetoricalness
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right
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screen
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seeming
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semblance
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sensationalism
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sententiousness
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sham
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show
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showiness
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simulacrum
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simulation
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smoke screen
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speciousness
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stalking-horse
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stiltedness
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stratagem
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stylishness
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subterfuge
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swelling utterance
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swollen phrase
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swollenness
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tall talk
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title
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tortuosity
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tortuousness
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trick
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tumidity
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tumidness
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turgescence
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turgidity
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unnaturalness
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varnish
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veil
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vested interest
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vested right
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window dressing
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