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squinting construction
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weasel word
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an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion
related words >
ambiguity
,
amphibology
,
counterword
,
dodging
,
double entendre
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
evasion
,
fencing
,
parrying
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
prevarication
,
pun
,
shuffle
,
squinting construction
,
suppressio veri
,
tergiversation
,
weasel words
portmanteau word
collapse
related words >
ambiguity
,
amphibology
,
blend
,
contamination
,
counterword
,
double entendre
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
hybrid
,
hybrid word
,
hybridism
,
macaronic
,
macaronicism
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau
,
portmantologism
,
pun
,
squinting construction
,
telescope word
,
weasel word
double entendre
collapse
an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate
related words >
ambiguity
,
ambiguousness
,
amphibology
,
belly laugh
,
blue story
,
complexity of meaning
,
counterword
,
dirty joke
,
dirty story
,
double meaning
,
double reference
,
equivocacy
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
ethnic joke
,
fun
,
funny story
,
gag
,
good one
,
good story
,
howler
,
irony
,
jape
,
jest
,
jestbook
,
joke
,
laugh
,
levels of meaning
,
multivocality
,
panic
,
paronomasia
,
play
,
point
,
polysemant
,
polysemousness
,
polysemy
,
portmanteau word
,
pun
,
punning
,
rib tickler
,
richness of meaning
,
riot
,
scream
,
sick joke
,
sidesplitter
,
sight gag
,
sport
,
squinting construction
,
story
,
tergiversation
,
uncertainty
,
visual joke
,
weasel word
,
wheeze
,
wow
,
yarn
pun
collapse
a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
related words >
abuse of terms
,
acrostic
,
alliterate
,
alliteration
,
ambiguity
,
amphibologism
,
amphibology
,
amphiboly
,
anagram
,
assonance
,
assonate
,
be merry with
,
calembour
,
chime
,
clink
,
corruption
,
counterword
,
crack a joke
,
crack wise
,
double entendre
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
fleer at
,
fun
,
gibe at
,
jape
,
jest
,
jeu de mots
,
jingle
,
joke
,
josh
,
kid
,
kid around
,
logogram
,
logogriph
,
make a funny
,
make fun
,
make fun of
,
malapropism
,
metagram
,
missaying
,
mock
,
near rhyme
,
palindrome
,
paronomasia
,
play on words
,
poke fun at
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
punning
,
quip
,
rhyme
,
ridicule
,
scintillate
,
scoff at
,
slant rhyme
,
sparkle
,
spoonerism
,
squinting construction
,
utter a mot
,
weasel word
,
wisecrack
,
wordplay
ambiguity
collapse
unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
related words >
Janus
,
ambivalence
,
amphibologism
,
amphibology
,
amphiboly
,
antinomy
,
asymmetry
,
biformity
,
bifurcation
,
cavil
,
conjugation
,
counterword
,
dichotomy
,
disproportion
,
disproportionateness
,
dodge
,
double entendre
,
double meaning
,
double-talk
,
doubleness
,
doublethink
,
doubling
,
dualism
,
duality
,
duplexity
,
duplication
,
duplicity
,
equivocacy
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
evasion
,
haggling
,
hair-splitting
,
halving
,
hedge
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
impenetrability
,
imprecision
,
inapprehensibility
,
inarticulateness
,
incognizability
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
incomprehensibility
,
inconclusiveness
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
indefiniteness
,
indistinctness
,
inscrutability
,
irony
,
irreconcilability
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformity
,
numinousness
,
obscurity
,
oxymoron
,
pairing
,
paradox
,
polarity
,
polysemant
,
polysemousness
,
portmanteau word
,
pun
,
quibbling
,
ramblingness
,
self-contradiction
,
shift
,
squinting construction
,
subterfuge
,
tergiversation
,
twinning
,
two-facedness
,
twoness
,
uncertainty
,
unconformability
,
unconformity
,
unconnectedness
,
unfathomableness
,
unintelligibility
,
unknowability
,
unorthodoxy
,
unsearchableness
,
vagueness
,
weasel word
agee
collapse
United States novelist (1909-1955)
related words >
agee-jawed
,
askance
,
askant
,
askew
,
askewgee
,
asquint
,
awry
,
catawampous
,
catawamptious
,
cockeyed
,
crooked
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
skewed
,
slaunchways
,
squinting
,
wamper-jawed
,
wry
,
yaw-ways
catawampous
collapse
related words >
agee
,
agee-jawed
,
askance
,
askant
,
askew
,
askewgee
,
asquint
,
awry
,
catawamptious
,
cockeyed
,
crooked
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
skewed
,
slaunchways
,
squinting
,
wamper-jawed
,
wry
,
yaw-ways
wry
collapse
bent to one side; "a wry neck"
related words >
agee
,
agee-jawed
,
askance
,
askant
,
askew
,
askewgee
,
asquint
,
awry
,
catawampous
,
catawamptious
,
cockeyed
,
crooked
,
cynical
,
ironic
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
skewed
,
slaunchways
,
squinting
,
wamper-jawed
,
wrest
,
wring
,
yaw-ways
squinting
collapse
related words >
agee
,
agee-jawed
,
askance
,
askant
,
askew
,
askewgee
,
asquint
,
astigmatic
,
awry
,
blink-eyed
,
blinking
,
blinky
,
catawampous
,
catawamptious
,
cockeyed
,
crooked
,
farsighted
,
longsighted
,
mope-eyed
,
myopic
,
nearsighted
,
poor-sighted
,
presbyopic
,
shortsighted
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
skewed
,
slaunchways
,
squinch-eyed
,
squint-eyed
,
squinty
,
strabismal
,
strabismic
,
wamper-jawed
,
winking
,
wry
,
yaw-ways
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
skewed
collapse
related words >
agee
,
agee-jawed
,
askance
,
askant
,
askew
,
askewgee
,
asquint
,
asymmetric
,
awry
,
catawampous
,
catawamptious
,
cockeyed
,
crooked
,
deflected
,
deflective
,
diffracted
,
diffractive
,
diffuse
,
diffused
,
disparate
,
dispersed
,
disproportionate
,
distorted
,
flectional
,
flexed
,
ill-matched
,
ill-sorted
,
inadequate
,
inflective
,
insufficient
,
irregular
,
mismatched
,
odd
,
out of proportion
,
refracted
,
refractile
,
refractive
,
refrangible
,
scattered
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
slaunchways
,
squinting
,
unequal
,
uneven
,
wamper-jawed
,
wry
,
yaw-ways
under construction
collapse
related words >
brewing
,
forthcoming
,
going on
,
in embryo
,
in hand
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in production
,
in progress
,
in the oven
,
in the works
,
on foot
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the way
,
under revision
,
under way
in production
collapse
related words >
brewing
,
forthcoming
,
going on
,
in embryo
,
in hand
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in progress
,
in the oven
,
in the works
,
on foot
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the way
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under way
longsighted
collapse
related words >
acute
,
anticipant
,
anticipatory
,
apperceptive
,
appercipient
,
argute
,
asquint
,
astigmatic
,
astute
,
blink-eyed
,
blinking
,
blinky
,
clairvoyant
,
cogent
,
discerning
,
divinatory
,
farseeing
,
farsighted
,
forehanded
,
foreknowing
,
foreseeing
,
foresighted
,
forethoughted
,
forethoughtful
,
incisive
,
intuitive
,
longheaded
,
mope-eyed
,
myopic
,
nearsighted
,
penetrating
,
perceptive
,
percipient
,
perspicacious
,
perspicuous
,
piercing
,
poor-sighted
,
precognitive
,
precognizant
,
prepared
,
presbyopic
,
prescient
,
provident
,
providential
,
prudent
,
ready
,
sagacious
,
shortsighted
,
squinch-eyed
,
squint-eyed
,
squinting
,
squinty
,
strabismal
,
strabismic
,
trenchant
,
understanding
,
winking
in progress
collapse
related words >
accepted
,
assumed
,
brewing
,
chanced
,
forthcoming
,
going on
,
in embryo
,
in hand
,
in mid-progress
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in production
,
in the oven
,
in the works
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the way
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under way
,
undertaken
on the way
collapse
on a route to some place; "help is on the way"; "we saw him on the way to California"
related words >
along the way
,
as one goes
,
brewing
,
en passant
,
en route
,
forthcoming
,
going on
,
in embryo
,
in hand
,
in mid-progress
,
in passing
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in production
,
in progress
,
in the oven
,
in the works
,
in transit
,
in transitu
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the road
,
on the wing
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under way
farsighted
collapse
able to see distant objects clearly
related words >
Argus-eyed
,
acute
,
anticipant
,
anticipatory
,
apperceptive
,
appercipient
,
argute
,
asquint
,
astigmatic
,
astute
,
blink-eyed
,
blinking
,
blinky
,
cat-eyed
,
clairvoyant
,
clear-eyed
,
clear-sighted
,
cogent
,
discerning
,
divinatory
,
eagle-eyed
,
eye-minded
,
farseeing
,
ferret-eyed
,
forehanded
,
foreknowing
,
foreseeing
,
foresighted
,
forethoughted
,
forethoughtful
,
hawk-eyed
,
incisive
,
intuitive
,
longheaded
,
longsighted
,
mope-eyed
,
myopic
,
nearsighted
,
penetrating
,
perceptive
,
percipient
,
perspicacious
,
perspicuous
,
piercing
,
poor-sighted
,
precognitive
,
precognizant
,
prepared
,
presbyopic
,
prescient
,
provident
,
providential
,
prudent
,
ready
,
sagacious
,
sharp-eyed
,
sharp-sighted
,
shortsighted
,
squinch-eyed
,
squint-eyed
,
squinting
,
squinty
,
strabismal
,
strabismic
,
telescopic
,
trenchant
,
understanding
,
winking
nearsighted
collapse
unable to see distant objects clearly
related words >
asquint
,
astigmatic
,
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
blind
,
blindfold
,
blindfolded
,
blink-eyed
,
blinking
,
blinky
,
borne
,
closed
,
constricted
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
dim-sighted
,
fanatical
,
farsighted
,
hidebound
,
illiberal
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
insensible
,
insular
,
little
,
little-minded
,
longsighted
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mind-blind
,
mope-eyed
,
myopic
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
nonunderstanding
,
parochial
,
petty
,
poor-sighted
,
presbyopic
,
provincial
,
purblind
,
shortsighted
,
small
,
small-minded
,
squinch-eyed
,
squint-eyed
,
squinting
,
squinty
,
strabismal
,
strabismic
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
unapprehending
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
uncomprehending
,
undiscerning
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unperceptive
,
winking
in process
collapse
related words >
accepted
,
acting
,
active
,
assumed
,
at work
,
brewing
,
chanced
,
forthcoming
,
functional
,
functioning
,
going
,
going on
,
in embryo
,
in exercise
,
in force
,
in hand
,
in operation
,
in play
,
in practice
,
in preparation
,
in production
,
in progress
,
in the oven
,
in the works
,
inaction
,
on foot
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the way
,
ongoing
,
operating
,
operational
,
running
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under way
,
undertaken
,
working
milling
collapse
corrugated edge of a coin
related words >
architecture
,
assembly
,
building
,
casting
,
composition
,
construction
,
conversion
,
crafting
,
craftsmanship
,
creation
,
cultivation
,
devising
,
elaboration
,
erection
,
extraction
,
fabrication
,
fashioning
,
formation
,
forming
,
formulation
,
framing
,
growing
,
handicraft
,
handiwork
,
harvesting
,
machining
,
making
,
manufacture
,
manufacturing
,
mining
,
molding
,
prefabrication
,
preparation
,
processing
,
producing
,
raising
,
refining
,
shaping
,
smelting
,
workmanship
blinking
collapse
closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"
related words >
absolute
,
aflicker
,
asquint
,
astigmatic
,
bickering
,
blasted
,
bleeding
,
blink
,
blink-eyed
,
blinkard
,
blinky
,
blooming
,
complete
,
coruscant
,
coruscating
,
coruscation
,
cursed
,
cussed
,
damnable
,
dancing
,
downright
,
execrable
,
farsighted
,
firefly
,
flashing
,
flickering
,
flickery
,
flicky
,
fluttering
,
fluttering the eyelids
,
fluttery
,
glimmer
,
glimmering
,
glimmerous
,
glimmery
,
glisten
,
glistening
,
glister
,
glistering
,
glitter
,
glittering
,
glittery
,
glowworm
,
infernal
,
lambent
,
longsighted
,
mope-eyed
,
myopic
,
nearsighted
,
nictitation
,
out-and-out
,
outright
,
perfect
,
playing
,
poor-sighted
,
presbyopic
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
scintilla
,
scintillant
,
scintillating
,
scintillation
,
scintillescent
,
shimmer
,
shimmering
,
shimmery
,
shortsighted
,
spangle
,
spangly
,
spark
,
sparkle
,
sparkling
,
squinch-eyed
,
squint-eyed
,
squinting
,
squinty
,
strabismal
,
strabismic
,
stroboscopic
,
stroboscopic light
,
tinsel
,
tinselly
,
twinkle
,
twinkling
,
twinkly
,
unmitigated
,
wavering
,
wavery
,
winker
,
winking
exegesis
collapse
an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)
related words >
allegorization
,
annotation
,
apparatus criticus
,
clarification
,
comment
,
commentary
,
commentation
,
construction
,
cracking
,
decipherment
,
decoding
,
demonstration
,
demythologization
,
editing
,
elucidation
,
emendation
,
enlightenment
,
euhemerism
,
exemplification
,
explanation
,
explication
,
expose
,
exposition
,
expounding
,
footnote
,
gloss
,
illumination
,
illustration
,
interpretation
,
light
,
notation
,
note
,
note of explanation
,
rationale
,
reason
,
scholium
,
simplification
,
solution
,
unlocking
,
word of explanation
acrostic
collapse
verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
related words >
abuse of terms
,
acronym
,
amphibologism
,
amphiboly
,
anagram
,
avyayibhava
,
back formation
,
calembour
,
clipped word
,
compound
,
conjugate
,
construction
,
corruption
,
dvandva
,
dvigu
,
endocentric compound
,
equivocality
,
equivoque
,
exocentric compound
,
formation
,
jeu de mots
,
logogram
,
logogriph
,
malapropism
,
metagram
,
missaying
,
palindrome
,
paronomasia
,
paronym
,
play on words
,
pun
,
punning
,
spoonerism
,
tatpurusha
,
word form
,
wordplay
tectonics
collapse
the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust
related words >
anatomy
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
arrangement
,
build
,
building
,
composition
,
conformation
,
constitution
,
construction
,
creation
,
fabric
,
fabrication
,
fashion
,
fashioning
,
forging
,
form
,
format
,
formation
,
frame
,
getup
,
make
,
makeup
,
making
,
manufacture
,
mold
,
molding
,
organic structure
,
organism
,
organization
,
pattern
,
patterning
,
physique
,
plan
,
production
,
setup
,
shape
,
shaping
,
structure
,
structuring
,
texture
,
tissue
,
warp and woof
,
weave
,
web
harvesting
collapse
related words >
architecture
,
assembly
,
building
,
casting
,
composition
,
construction
,
conversion
,
crafting
,
craftsmanship
,
creation
,
crop
,
cropping
,
cultivation
,
cutting
,
devising
,
elaboration
,
erection
,
extraction
,
fabrication
,
fashioning
,
formation
,
forming
,
formulation
,
framing
,
gathering
,
gleaning
,
growing
,
handicraft
,
handiwork
,
harvest
,
ingathering
,
machining
,
making
,
manufacture
,
manufacturing
,
milling
,
mining
,
molding
,
nutting
,
prefabrication
,
preparation
,
processing
,
producing
,
raising
,
reaping
,
refining
,
shaping
,
smelting
,
workmanship
awry
collapse
away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
related words >
aberrant
,
abroad
,
adrift
,
afield
,
agee
,
agee-jawed
,
all abroad
,
all off
,
all wrong
,
amiss
,
aside
,
askance
,
askant
,
askew
,
askewgee
,
aslant
,
asquint
,
astray
,
at fault
,
badly
,
beside the mark
,
cam
,
catawampous
,
catawamptious
,
cock-a-hoop
,
cockeyed
,
convulsed
,
corrupt
,
crooked
,
crookedly
,
deceptive
,
defective
,
delusive
,
deranged
,
deviant
,
deviational
,
deviative
,
disarranged
,
discomfited
,
discomposed
,
disconcerted
,
dislocated
,
disordered
,
disorderly
,
disorganized
,
distorted
,
disturbed
,
errant
,
erring
,
erroneous
,
erroneously
,
fallacious
,
false
,
faultful
,
faultily
,
faulty
,
flawed
,
haywire
,
heretical
,
heterodox
,
illogical
,
illusory
,
in disorder
,
misplaced
,
not right
,
not true
,
obliquely
,
off
,
off the track
,
on the fritz
,
out
,
out of gear
,
out of joint
,
out of kelter
,
out of kilter
,
out of order
,
out of place
,
out of tune
,
out of whack
,
peccant
,
perturbed
,
perverse
,
perverted
,
roily
,
self-contradictory
,
shuffled
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
skewed
,
slantways
,
slaunchways
,
squinting
,
straying
,
turbid
,
turbulent
,
unfactual
,
unfavorably
,
unorthodox
,
unproved
,
unsettled
,
untrue
,
untruly
,
upset
,
wamper-jawed
,
wide
,
wrong
,
wry
,
yaw-ways
miscalculation
collapse
a mistake in calculating
related words >
clerical error
,
corrigendum
,
erratum
,
error
,
error in judgment
,
failure
,
fault
,
faute
,
human error
,
injudiciousness
,
misappreciation
,
misapprehension
,
miscarriage
,
miscomputation
,
misconception
,
misconjecture
,
misconstruction
,
miscount
,
misdeal
,
misestimation
,
misevaluation
,
misidentification
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misplay
,
misprint
,
misquotation
,
misreading
,
misreport
,
miss
,
misstatement
,
mistake
,
misunderstanding
,
misuse
,
misvaluation
,
poor judgment
,
skewed judgment
,
typo
,
typographical error
,
wrong construction
,
wrong impression
armada
collapse
a large fleet
related words >
Naval Construction Battalion
,
RN
,
Royal Navy
,
Seabees
,
USN
,
United States Navy
,
argosy
,
coast guard
,
division
,
escadrille
,
fleet
,
flotilla
,
marine
,
merchant fleet
,
merchant marine
,
merchant navy
,
mosquito fleet
,
naval forces
,
naval militia
,
naval reserve
,
navy
,
squadron
,
task force
,
task group
going on
collapse
related words >
accidental
,
accompanying
,
acting
,
active
,
ado
,
afloat
,
afoot
,
at work
,
brewing
,
circumstantial
,
current
,
doing
,
eventuating
,
forthcoming
,
functional
,
functioning
,
going
,
happening
,
in embryo
,
in exercise
,
in force
,
in hand
,
in mid-progress
,
in operation
,
in play
,
in practice
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in production
,
in progress
,
in the oven
,
in the wind
,
in the works
,
inaction
,
incidental
,
occasional
,
occurring
,
on
,
on foot
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the way
,
ongoing
,
operating
,
operational
,
passing
,
prevailing
,
prevalent
,
resultant
,
running
,
taking place
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under way
,
working
misreading
collapse
misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading
related words >
abuse of terms
,
catachresis
,
contorting
,
distortion
,
eisegesis
,
error
,
error in judgment
,
garbling
,
gloss
,
injudiciousness
,
malentendu
,
malobservation
,
misapplication
,
misappreciation
,
misapprehension
,
miscalculation
,
miscitation
,
miscomputation
,
misconception
,
misconjecture
,
misconstruction
,
misestimation
,
misevaluation
,
misexplanation
,
misexplication
,
misexposition
,
misintelligence
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misquotation
,
misrendering
,
mistranslation
,
misunderstanding
,
misuse of words
,
misvaluation
,
perversion
,
poor judgment
,
skewed judgment
,
squeezing
,
torturing
,
twisting
,
wrenching
,
wrong construction
,
wrong impression
askew
collapse
turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"
related words >
aberrant
,
abroad
,
adrift
,
agee
,
agee-jawed
,
all abroad
,
all off
,
all wrong
,
amiss
,
anamorphous
,
askance
,
askant
,
askewgee
,
asquint
,
astray
,
asymmetric
,
at fault
,
awry
,
bent
,
beside the mark
,
bowed
,
cam
,
catawampous
,
catawamptious
,
contorted
,
convulsed
,
corrupt
,
crazy
,
crooked
,
crookedly
,
crumpled
,
crunched
,
deceptive
,
defective
,
delusive
,
deranged
,
deviant
,
deviational
,
deviative
,
disarranged
,
discomfited
,
discomposed
,
disconcerted
,
dislocated
,
disordered
,
disorderly
,
disorganized
,
distorted
,
disturbed
,
errant
,
erring
,
erroneous
,
fallacious
,
false
,
faultful
,
faulty
,
flawed
,
haywire
,
heretical
,
heterodox
,
illogical
,
illusory
,
in disorder
,
irregular
,
labyrinthine
,
lopsided
,
misplaced
,
nonsymmetric
,
not right
,
not true
,
off
,
off the track
,
on the fritz
,
one-sided
,
out
,
out of gear
,
out of joint
,
out of kelter
,
out of kilter
,
out of order
,
out of place
,
out of tune
,
out of whack
,
peccant
,
perturbed
,
perverse
,
perverted
,
roily
,
self-contradictory
,
shuffled
,
skew
,
skew-jawed
,
skewed
,
slaunchways
,
sprung
,
squinting
,
straying
,
tortuous
,
turbid
,
turbulent
,
twisted
,
unfactual
,
unorthodox
,
unproved
,
unsettled
,
unsymmetric
,
untrue
,
upset
,
wamper-jawed
,
warped
,
wide
,
wrong
,
wry
,
yaw-ways
prefabrication
collapse
the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site
related words >
architecture
,
assembly
,
building
,
casting
,
composition
,
construct
,
construction
,
conversion
,
crafting
,
craftsmanship
,
creation
,
cultivation
,
devising
,
edifice
,
elaboration
,
erection
,
establishment
,
extraction
,
fabric
,
fabrication
,
fashioning
,
formation
,
forming
,
formulation
,
framing
,
growing
,
handicraft
,
handiwork
,
harvesting
,
house
,
machining
,
making
,
manufacture
,
manufacturing
,
milling
,
mining
,
molding
,
packaged house
,
pile
,
prefab
,
preparation
,
processing
,
producing
,
pyramid
,
raising
,
refining
,
shaping
,
skyscraper
,
smelting
,
structure
,
superstructure
,
tower
,
workmanship
melodramatics
collapse
related words >
Thespian art
,
amateur theatricals
,
blood and thunder
,
demonstrativeness
,
dramatic art
,
dramatic form
,
dramatic irony
,
dramatic stroke
,
dramatic structure
,
dramaticism
,
dramatics
,
dramatism
,
dramaturgy
,
emotional appeal
,
emotionalism
,
emotionality
,
emotionalization
,
emotionalizing
,
emotiveness
,
emotivity
,
histrionics
,
histrionism
,
human interest
,
love interest
,
making scenes
,
melodrama
,
nonrationalness
,
play construction
,
sensationalism
,
staginess
,
theatricalism
,
theatricality
,
theatricals
,
theatricism
,
theatrics
,
unreasoningness
,
visceralness
,
yellow journalism
merchant marine
collapse
the crew of a merchant vessel
related words >
Naval Construction Battalion
,
RN
,
Royal Navy
,
Seabees
,
USN
,
United States Navy
,
argosy
,
armada
,
bottoms
,
coast guard
,
division
,
escadrille
,
fleet
,
flotilla
,
line
,
marine
,
merchant fleet
,
merchant navy
,
mosquito fleet
,
naval forces
,
naval militia
,
naval reserve
,
navy
,
shipping
,
ships
,
squadron
,
task force
,
task group
,
tonnage
,
whaling fleet
flotilla
collapse
a fleet of small craft
a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
related words >
Naval Construction Battalion
,
RN
,
Royal Navy
,
Seabees
,
USN
,
United States Navy
,
argosy
,
armada
,
bottoms
,
coast guard
,
division
,
escadrille
,
fleet
,
line
,
marine
,
merchant fleet
,
merchant marine
,
merchant navy
,
mosquito fleet
,
naval forces
,
naval militia
,
naval reserve
,
navy
,
shipping
,
ships
,
squadron
,
task force
,
task group
,
tonnage
,
whaling fleet
shortsighted
collapse
related words >
asquint
,
astigmatic
,
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
blind
,
blindfold
,
blindfolded
,
blink-eyed
,
blinking
,
blinky
,
borne
,
closed
,
constricted
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
dim-sighted
,
fanatical
,
farsighted
,
hidebound
,
ill-advised
,
ill-considered
,
ill-contrived
,
ill-devised
,
ill-gauged
,
ill-judged
,
illiberal
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
impolitic
,
imprudent
,
inadvisable
,
inconsiderate
,
indiscreet
,
inexpedient
,
injudicious
,
insensate
,
insensible
,
insular
,
irrational
,
little
,
little-minded
,
longsighted
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mind-blind
,
mindless
,
misadvised
,
misguided
,
mope-eyed
,
myopic
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
nearsighted
,
nonunderstanding
,
parochial
,
petty
,
poor-sighted
,
presbyopic
,
provincial
,
purblind
,
reasonless
,
reckless
,
senseless
,
small
,
small-minded
,
squinch-eyed
,
squint-eyed
,
squinting
,
squinty
,
strabismal
,
strabismic
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
thoughtless
,
unadvised
,
unapprehending
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
uncomprehending
,
unconsidered
,
undiscerning
,
unforeseeing
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unperceptive
,
unreasonable
,
unreflecting
,
unreflective
,
unseeing
,
unsensible
,
unsound
,
unthinking
,
unthoughtful
,
unwise
,
winking
,
witless
devising
collapse
the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
related words >
architecture
,
assembly
,
authorship
,
beginning
,
building
,
casting
,
coinage
,
composition
,
conception
,
concoction
,
construction
,
contrivance
,
contriving
,
conversion
,
crafting
,
craftsmanship
,
creation
,
creative effort
,
cultivation
,
elaboration
,
erection
,
extraction
,
fabrication
,
fashioning
,
formation
,
forming
,
formulation
,
framing
,
generation
,
growing
,
handicraft
,
handiwork
,
harvesting
,
hatching
,
improvisation
,
invention
,
machining
,
making
,
making do
,
manufacture
,
manufacturing
,
milling
,
mining
,
mintage
,
molding
,
origination
,
prefabrication
,
preparation
,
processing
,
producing
,
raising
,
refining
,
shaping
,
smelting
,
workmanship
under way
collapse
in motion; set in motion; "the ship got under way"
related words >
accepted
,
accidental
,
accompanying
,
ado
,
afloat
,
afoot
,
assumed
,
astir
,
at sea
,
brewing
,
chanced
,
circumstantial
,
current
,
doing
,
eventuating
,
forthcoming
,
going on
,
happening
,
homeward bound
,
in blue water
,
in embryo
,
in hand
,
in motion
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in production
,
in progress
,
in soundings
,
in the oven
,
in the wind
,
in the works
,
incidental
,
making way
,
occasional
,
occurring
,
off soundings
,
off the course
,
off the heading
,
on
,
on foot
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the go
,
on the move
,
on the run
,
on the way
,
ongoing
,
passing
,
prevailing
,
prevalent
,
resultant
,
taking place
,
under bare poles
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under sail
,
undertaken
,
with sails spread
,
with way on
wrong impression
collapse
related words >
airy nothing
,
autism
,
bubble
,
chimera
,
daydream
,
deception
,
deluded belief
,
delusion
,
dereism
,
dream
,
dream vision
,
dreamland
,
dreamworld
,
error
,
error in judgment
,
false belief
,
ignis fatuus
,
illusion
,
injudiciousness
,
misappreciation
,
misbelief
,
miscalculation
,
miscomputation
,
misconception
,
misconjecture
,
misconstruction
,
misestimation
,
misevaluation
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misreading
,
misvaluation
,
pipe dream
,
poor judgment
,
self-deceit
,
self-deception
,
self-delusion
,
skewed judgment
,
trick
,
trip
,
vapor
,
wrong construction
dramatics
collapse
participation in theatrical productions as an extracurricular activity
related words >
Thespian art
,
amateur theatricals
,
blazon
,
bravura
,
brilliancy
,
daring
,
dash
,
demonstration
,
display
,
dramatic art
,
dramatic form
,
dramatic irony
,
dramatic stroke
,
dramatic structure
,
dramaticism
,
dramatism
,
dramaturgy
,
eclat
,
etalage
,
exhibition
,
exhibitionism
,
false front
,
fanfaronade
,
figure
,
flair
,
flaunt
,
flaunting
,
flourish
,
histrionics
,
histrionism
,
manifestation
,
melodramatics
,
pageant
,
pageantry
,
parade
,
play construction
,
sensationalism
,
sham
,
show
,
showing-off
,
spectacle
,
splash
,
splurge
,
staginess
,
theatricalism
,
theatricality
,
theatricals
,
theatricism
,
theatrics
,
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