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the big lie
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exaggeration
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the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
making to seem more important than it really is
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amplification
,
beefing-up
,
blague
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boundlessness
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
command of language
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
confabulation
,
consolidation
,
deepening
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
equivocation
,
exacerbation
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
explosion
,
expression of ideas
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flight of fancy
,
flimflam
,
form of speech
,
garbling
,
ghost story
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
half-truth
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
intensification
,
inundation
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
literary style
,
litotes
,
little white lie
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overappraisal
,
overassessment
,
overcalculation
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overestimate
,
overestimation
,
overflowing
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overpass
,
overrating
,
overreaction
,
overreckoning
,
overrun
,
overrunning
,
overspreading
,
overstatement
,
overvaluation
,
peculiarity
,
perjury
,
personal style
,
perversion
,
pickup
,
pious fiction
,
population explosion
,
prevarication
,
radicalism
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
rhetoric
,
romance
,
sense of language
,
slanting
,
slight stretching
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
story
,
strain
,
straining
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superiority
,
surplus
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tall talk
,
taradiddle
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
tightening
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
trick
,
trumped-up story
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
,
untruth
,
vein
,
way
,
white lie
,
yarn
carrying
collapse
related words >
accoutered
,
aid
,
air express
,
airfreight
,
airlift
,
anticipating
,
armed
,
asportation
,
backing
,
bearing
,
big with child
,
big-laden
,
bolstering
,
bracing
,
breeding
,
bristling with arms
,
burdened
,
buttressing
,
carriage
,
carry
,
carrying a fetus
,
cartage
,
conveyance
,
drayage
,
expecting
,
expressage
,
ferriage
,
freight
,
freightage
,
full-armed
,
gestating
,
gravid
,
great
,
haulage
,
hauling
,
heavy
,
heavy with child
,
heavy-armed
,
heeled
,
holding
,
in arms
,
knocked up
,
light-armed
,
lighterage
,
lugging
,
maintaining
,
maintenance
,
moral support
,
packing
,
parturient
,
portage
,
porterage
,
preggers
,
pregnant
,
propping
,
psychological support
,
railway express
,
reliance
,
security blanket
,
shipment
,
shipping
,
shoring
,
subsidy
,
subvention
,
superfetate
,
superimpregnated
,
support
,
supporting
,
supportive
,
supportive relationship
,
supportive therapy
,
suspensory
,
sustaining
,
sustainment
,
sustenance
,
sustentation
,
sustentative
,
sword in hand
,
teeming
,
telpherage
,
toting
,
transit
,
transport
,
transportation
,
transporting
,
transshipment
,
truckage
,
under arms
,
upholding
,
upkeep
,
waft
,
waftage
,
wagonage
,
well-armed
,
with child
give birth
collapse
cause_to_be_born; "My wife had twins yesterday!"
create or produce an idea; "Marx and Engels gave birth to communism"
related words >
animate
,
be confined
,
bear
,
bear a child
,
bear young
,
breathe life into
,
bring into being
,
bring into existence
,
bring to life
,
call into being
,
call into existence
,
calve
,
cast
,
conceive
,
drop
,
endow with life
,
energize
,
farrow
,
fawn
,
foal
,
give life to
,
have
,
have a baby
,
have young
,
inspirit
,
kitten
,
labor
,
lamb
,
lie in
,
litter
,
pup
,
quicken
,
throw
,
travail
,
vitalize
,
vivify
,
whelp
,
yean
go over big
collapse
related words >
be blooded
,
be successful
,
catch on
,
click
,
come off
,
connect
,
farewell
,
give pleasure
,
go
,
go great guns
,
go off
,
go over
,
go to town
,
graduate
,
hit the spot
,
make a hit
,
meet with success
,
pass
,
please
,
prevail
,
prosper
,
qualify
,
succeed
,
take
,
work well
,
work wonders
character assassination
collapse
an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
related words >
attack
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
blackening
,
calumny
,
defamation
,
defamation of character
,
defilement
,
denigration
,
depreciation
,
dirt
,
dirty politics
,
disparagement
,
gossip column
,
juicy morsel
,
last-minute lie
,
malicious defamation
,
malicious gossip
,
muckraking
,
mudslinging
,
mudslinging campaign
,
name-calling
,
political canard
,
revilement
,
roorback
,
scandal
,
scandalmongering
,
slander
,
smear
,
smear campaign
,
smear word
,
tidbit
,
vilification
,
whispering campaign
suburbanite
collapse
a resident of a suburb
related words >
big-city man
,
bourgeois
,
burgess
,
burgher
,
city dweller
,
city man
,
city slicker
,
exurbanite
,
oppidan
,
townee
,
towner
,
townfolk
,
townfolks
,
townsman
,
townspeople
,
townswoman
,
urbanite
,
villager
,
villageress
townee
collapse
townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller
related words >
big-city man
,
bourgeois
,
burgess
,
burgher
,
city dweller
,
city man
,
city slicker
,
exurbanite
,
oppidan
,
suburbanite
,
towner
,
townfolk
,
townfolks
,
townsman
,
townspeople
,
townswoman
,
urbanite
,
villager
,
villageress
townspeople
collapse
related words >
big-city man
,
bourgeois
,
burgess
,
burgher
,
city dweller
,
city man
,
city slicker
,
exurbanite
,
oppidan
,
suburbanite
,
townee
,
towner
,
townfolk
,
townfolks
,
townsman
,
townswoman
,
urbanite
,
villager
,
villageress
urbanite
collapse
related words >
big-city man
,
bourgeois
,
burgess
,
burgher
,
city dweller
,
city man
,
city slicker
,
exurbanite
,
oppidan
,
suburbanite
,
townee
,
towner
,
townfolk
,
townfolks
,
townsman
,
townspeople
,
townswoman
,
villager
,
villageress
villager
collapse
one who has lived in a village most of their life
related words >
big-city man
,
bourgeois
,
burgess
,
burgher
,
city dweller
,
city man
,
city slicker
,
exurbanite
,
oppidan
,
suburbanite
,
townee
,
towner
,
townfolk
,
townfolks
,
townsman
,
townspeople
,
townswoman
,
urbanite
,
villageress
city dweller
collapse
related words >
big-city man
,
bourgeois
,
burgess
,
burgher
,
city man
,
city slicker
,
exurbanite
,
oppidan
,
suburbanite
,
townee
,
towner
,
townfolk
,
townfolks
,
townsman
,
townspeople
,
townswoman
,
urbanite
,
villager
,
villageress
take it easy
collapse
related words >
be careful
,
be cautious
,
bed
,
bed down
,
calm down
,
coast
,
collect oneself
,
compose oneself
,
cool it
,
cool off
,
couch
,
curl up
,
drift
,
get organized
,
go easy
,
go on tiptoe
,
go to bed
,
go to rest
,
lie down
,
loll
,
lounge
,
make haste slowly
,
make light of
,
make little of
,
not sweat it
,
pussyfoot
,
recline
,
relax
,
repose
,
rest
,
settle to rest
,
simmer down
,
snug down
,
sober down
,
sprawl
,
take life easy
,
think nothing of
,
think twice
,
tiptoe
,
unwind
,
walk on eggshells
ten
collapse
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
being one more than nine
related words >
Big Dick
,
Decalogue
,
Ten Commandments
,
X
,
blow
,
breath
,
breather
,
breathing
,
decade
,
decagon
,
decagram
,
decahedron
,
decaliter
,
decameter
,
decare
,
decastere
,
decastyle
,
decasyllable
,
decemvir
,
decemvirate
,
decennary
,
decennium
,
decigram
,
deciliter
,
decimeter
,
decurion
,
respite
,
tenner
not budge
collapse
related words >
balk
,
be a sideliner
,
be still
,
be unflappable
,
coast
,
delay
,
die hard
,
do nothing
,
drift
,
get home free
,
hang fire
,
hibernate
,
hold fast
,
hold out
,
hold up
,
idle
,
lie dormant
,
not stir
,
persevere
,
remain firm
,
rest
,
ride it out
,
sit back
,
sit it out
,
stagnate
,
stand fast
,
stand firm
,
stand out
,
stand pat
,
stay put
,
stick it out
,
stickle
,
take no denial
,
vegetate
,
wait and see
,
watch and wait
,
weather
,
weather the storm
blow off
collapse
come off due to an explosion or other strong force
related words >
attenuate
,
beef
,
bellyache
,
bitch
,
bleat
,
blow
,
blowhard
,
cast forth
,
clear away
,
crab
,
dilute
,
dispel
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
drive away
,
evaporate
,
fuss
,
shoot the shit
,
squawk
,
talk big
,
thin
,
thin out
,
volatilize
,
yammer
,
yawp
jut
collapse
related words >
arch over
,
beetle
,
bestraddle
,
bestride
,
bridge
,
bristle up
,
bulge
,
cock up
,
elongate
,
extend
,
extend over
,
extrude
,
hang out
,
hang over
,
imbricate
,
impend
,
impend over
,
jut out
,
lap
,
lap over
,
lean over
,
lengthen
,
lie over
,
overarch
,
overhang
,
overlap
,
overlie
,
override
,
poke
,
poke out
,
pouch
,
pout
,
project
,
project over
,
protrude
,
protrusion
,
protuberance
,
protuberate
,
shingle
,
shoot out
,
shoot up
,
span
,
stand out
,
start up
,
stick out
,
stick up
,
thrust over
look for
collapse
related words >
address
,
angle for
,
anticipate
,
approach
,
ask for
,
await
,
be destined
,
be fated
,
be imminent
,
be to be
,
be to come
,
beat about for
,
bid for
,
calculate on
,
canvass
,
come
,
come on
,
count on
,
court
,
delve for
,
dig for
,
draw near
,
draw on
,
expect
,
fish for
,
follow
,
foresee
,
forestall
,
foretell
,
go gunning for
,
gun for
,
hope
,
hunt
,
hunt for
,
hunt up
,
lie ahead
,
look
,
look forward to
,
look out for
,
look to
,
look up
,
loom
,
near
,
plan
,
plot
,
pop the question
,
predict
,
project
,
prophesy
,
prowl after
,
pursue
,
quest
,
reckon on
,
search for
,
see to
,
seek
,
seek for
,
solicit
,
still-hunt
,
sue
,
sue for
,
threaten
,
try to find
,
watch out for
,
woo
dawdler
collapse
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
related words >
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loafer
,
loiterer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
overburden
collapse
the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
burden with too much work or responsibility
load with excessive weight
related words >
bear hard upon
,
burden
,
burthen
,
charge
,
choke
,
congest
,
cram
,
crowd
,
cumber
,
drench
,
encumber
,
freight
,
glut
,
gluttonize
,
go hard with
,
go ill with
,
gorge
,
hamper
,
handicap
,
jam
,
jam-pack
,
lade
,
lie on
,
load
,
oppress
,
overcharge
,
overfeed
,
overfill
,
overlade
,
overload
,
overstuff
,
overtax
,
overweigh
,
overweight
,
pack
,
press hard upon
,
rest hard upon
,
saddle
,
satiate
,
saturate
,
soak
,
stuff
,
supercharge
,
supersaturate
,
surcharge
,
surfeit
,
tax
,
try one
,
weigh down
,
weigh heavy on
,
weigh on
,
weigh upon
lingerer
collapse
related words >
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
loafer
,
loiterer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
straggler
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
loiterer
collapse
someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place
related words >
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loafer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
straggler
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
coercion
collapse
the act of compelling by force of authority
related words >
argumentum baculinum
,
compulsion
,
constraint
,
duress
,
high pressure
,
intimidation
,
menace
,
menacing
,
pressure
,
strong-arm tactics
,
the big stick
,
the bludgeon
,
the club
,
the jackboot
,
the mailed fist
,
the strong arm
,
the sword
,
threat
,
threatening
,
violence
clapping
collapse
related words >
acclaim
,
acclamation
,
applause
,
big hand
,
burst of applause
,
cheer
,
clap
,
clapping of hands
,
eclat
,
encore
,
hand
,
handclap
,
handclapping
,
ovation
,
plaudit
,
popularity
,
round of applause
,
thunder of applause
plaudit
collapse
related words >
acclaim
,
acclamation
,
applause
,
big hand
,
burst of applause
,
cheer
,
clap
,
clapping
,
clapping of hands
,
eclat
,
encore
,
hand
,
handclap
,
handclapping
,
ovation
,
popularity
,
round of applause
,
thunder of applause
big hand
collapse
related words >
acclaim
,
acclamation
,
applause
,
burst of applause
,
cheer
,
clap
,
clapping
,
clapping of hands
,
eclat
,
encore
,
hand
,
handclap
,
handclapping
,
ovation
,
plaudit
,
popularity
,
round of applause
,
thunder of applause
go to town
collapse
related words >
be blooded
,
be successful
,
catch on
,
click
,
come off
,
connect
,
farewell
,
get cutting
,
go
,
go great guns
,
go off
,
go over
,
go over big
,
graduate
,
hit the ball
,
hump
,
lean on it
,
make a hit
,
meet with success
,
pass
,
pour it on
,
prevail
,
prosper
,
qualify
,
shake a leg
,
succeed
,
take
,
work well
,
work wonders
softy
collapse
a person who is weak and excessively sentimental
related words >
Milquetoast
,
baby
,
big baby
,
chicken
,
crybaby
,
doormat
,
dull tool
,
gutless wonder
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
lightweight
,
meek soul
,
milksop
,
mollycoddle
,
namby-pamby
,
nebbish
,
nonentity
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pushover
,
sad sack
,
sissy
,
softling
,
sop
,
weak sister
,
weakling
crybaby
collapse
related words >
Milquetoast
,
baby
,
big baby
,
chicken
,
doormat
,
dull tool
,
gutless wonder
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
lightweight
,
meek soul
,
milksop
,
mollycoddle
,
namby-pamby
,
nebbish
,
nonentity
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pushover
,
sad sack
,
sissy
,
softling
,
softy
,
sop
,
weak sister
,
weakling
make love
collapse
related words >
ball
,
be intimate
,
beget
,
bill and coo
,
breed
,
breed true
,
cohabit
,
come together
,
commit adultery
,
copulate
,
couple
,
cover
,
crossbreed
,
dally
,
diddle
,
engender
,
father
,
fornicate
,
frig
,
generate
,
get
,
have sex
,
have sexual relations
,
inbreed
,
lay
,
lie with
,
lollygag
,
make it with
,
make out
,
mate
,
mother
,
mount
,
multiply
,
neck
,
outbreed
,
pet
,
procreate
,
proliferate
,
propagate
,
reproduce in kind
,
screw
,
serve
,
service
,
sire
,
sleep with
,
smooch
,
spoon
,
sweet-talk
,
toy
,
trifle
,
wanton
,
whisper sweet nothings
misrepresent
collapse
represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
related words >
belie
,
bias
,
burlesque
,
camouflage
,
caricature
,
cloak
,
color
,
confuse
,
counterfeit
,
disguise
,
dissemble
,
distort
,
dress
,
dress up
,
embellish
,
embroider
,
equivocate
,
exaggerate
,
falsify
,
feign
,
fudge
,
garble
,
gild
,
gloss
,
gloss over
,
lie
,
mangle
,
mask
,
miscite
,
miscolor
,
misconstrue
,
misdirect
,
misinterpret
,
misquote
,
misrender
,
misreport
,
misstate
,
misteach
,
misuse
,
overdraw
,
overstate
,
palter
,
parody
,
pervert
,
prevaricate
,
simulate
,
slant
,
strain
,
titivate
,
torture
,
travesty
,
trick out
,
twist
,
understate
,
varnish
,
warp
,
weasel
,
whitewash
,
wrench
,
wrest
hinge
collapse
a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"
attach with a hinge
related words >
accrue from
,
ankle
,
arbor
,
arise from
,
articulate
,
articulation
,
axis
,
axle
,
axle bar
,
axle shaft
,
axle spindle
,
axle-tree
,
batten
,
batten down
,
be based on
,
be contingent on
,
be dependent on
,
be due to
,
be predicated on
,
bolt
,
boundary
,
buckle
,
bud from
,
butt
,
button
,
cervix
,
clasp
,
cleat
,
climacteric
,
clinch
,
clip
,
closure
,
clutch
,
come from
,
come out of
,
connecting link
,
connecting rod
,
connection
,
convergence of events
,
coupling
,
crisis
,
critical juncture
,
critical point
,
crossroads
,
crucial period
,
crunch
,
depend
,
depend on
,
derive from
,
descend from
,
distaff
,
dovetail
,
elbow
,
emanate from
,
embrace
,
emerge from
,
emergency
,
ensue from
,
exigency
,
extremity
,
flow from
,
follow from
,
fulcrum
,
germinate from
,
gimbal
,
gliding joint
,
grow from
,
grow out of
,
gudgeon
,
hang
,
hang on
,
hasp
,
hinge on
,
hinged joint
,
hingle
,
hip
,
hitch
,
hook
,
hub
,
interface
,
issue from
,
jam
,
join
,
joining
,
joint
,
juncture
,
knee
,
knuckle
,
latch
,
lie on
,
lie with
,
link
,
lock
,
mandrel
,
miter
,
mortise
,
nail
,
nave
,
neck
,
oarlock
,
originate in
,
pass
,
peg
,
pin
,
pinch
,
pintle
,
pivot
,
pivot joint
,
pole
,
proceed from
,
push
,
rabbet
,
radiant
,
rest
,
rest on
,
rest with
,
revolve on
,
rivet
,
rowlock
,
rub
,
scarf
,
screw
,
seam
,
sew
,
shoulder
,
skewer
,
snap
,
spindle
,
spring from
,
sprout from
,
stand on
,
staple
,
stem from
,
stick
,
stitch
,
strait
,
suture
,
swivel
,
symphysis
,
tack
,
tie rod
,
toggle
,
toggle joint
,
trunnion
,
turn
,
turn on
,
turn upon
,
turning point
,
union
,
wedge
,
weld
,
wrist
,
zipper
pretentious
collapse
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
related words >
Gongoresque
,
Gongoristic
,
Johnsonian
,
Marinistic
,
affected
,
ambitious
,
arrogant
,
artificial
,
arty
,
aureate
,
bedizened
,
big
,
big-sounding
,
bombastic
,
chichi
,
classy
,
convoluted
,
declamatory
,
elaborate
,
elaborated
,
elevated
,
euphuistic
,
exaggerated
,
extravagant
,
fancy
,
feigned
,
flamboyant
,
flaming
,
flashy
,
flaunting
,
flossy
,
flowery
,
fulsome
,
garish
,
gassy
,
gaudy
,
grandiloquent
,
grandiose
,
grandisonant
,
haughty
,
high and mighty
,
high-flowing
,
high-flown
,
high-flying
,
high-hat
,
high-sounding
,
high-swelling
,
high-toned
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
histrionic
,
hoity-toity
,
hyperelegant
,
imposing
,
inflated
,
inkhorn
,
insincere
,
la-di-da
,
labyrinthine
,
lexiphanic
,
lofty
,
lurid
,
magniloquent
,
maniere
,
mannered
,
meretricious
,
mincing
,
orotund
,
ostentatious
,
overacted
,
overblown
,
overdone
,
overelaborate
,
overelegant
,
overinvolved
,
overnice
,
overrefined
,
overwrought
,
peacockish
,
peacocky
,
pedantic
,
pompous
,
precieuse
,
precieux
,
precious
,
put-on
,
rhetorical
,
sensational
,
sensationalistic
,
sententious
,
showy
,
snobbish
,
snotty
,
sonorous
,
splashy
,
stagy
,
stilted
,
studied
,
superficial
,
swank
,
swollen
,
tall
,
theatrical
,
tony
,
too-too
,
tortuous
,
tumid
,
turgid
,
unnatural
,
utopian
,
vainglorious
,
vaunting
,
visionary
,
windy
prodigal son
collapse
related words >
Magdalen
,
backslider
,
big-time spender
,
confessor
,
lost lamb
,
penitent
,
prodigal
,
prodigal returned
,
recidivist
,
repeater
,
returnee
,
reversioner
,
reversionist
,
spend-all
,
spender
,
spendthrift
,
squanderer
,
two-time loser
,
waster
,
wastethrift
,
wastrel
top brass
collapse
the most important persons in a governing body
related words >
ADC
,
CO
,
Establishment
,
OD
,
VIP
,
aide
,
aide-de-camp
,
baron
,
big gun
,
big man
,
big name
,
bigwig
,
board
,
board of directors
,
board of regents
,
board of trustees
,
brass
,
brass hat
,
brigadier
,
brigadier general
,
bureaucracy
,
cabinet
,
cadre
,
captain
,
celebrity
,
chicken colonel
,
chief of staff
,
colonel
,
commandant
,
commander
,
commander in chief
,
commanding officer
,
commissioned officer
,
company officer
,
council
,
dignitary
,
dignity
,
directorate
,
directory
,
elder
,
exec
,
executive arm
,
executive committee
,
executive hierarchy
,
executive officer
,
father
,
field marshal
,
field officer
,
figure
,
first lieutenant
,
five-star general
,
four-star general
,
general
,
general officer
,
generalissimo
,
governing board
,
governing body
,
great man
,
hierarchy
,
higher echelons
,
higher-ups
,
important person
,
infrastructure
,
interests
,
interlocking directorate
,
jemadar
,
junior officer
,
lieutenant
,
lieutenant colonel
,
lieutenant general
,
lion
,
lords of creation
,
magnate
,
major
,
major general
,
man of mark
,
management
,
marechal
,
marshal
,
ministry
,
mogul
,
nabob
,
name
,
notability
,
notable
,
officer
,
officialdom
,
one-star general
,
orderly officer
,
panjandrum
,
person of renown
,
personage
,
personality
,
pillar of society
,
power
,
power elite
,
prelacy
,
risaldar
,
ruling circle
,
ruling class
,
ruling classes
,
sachem
,
senior officer
,
shavetail
,
sirdar
,
somebody
,
something
,
staff officer
,
steering committee
,
subahdar
,
subaltern
,
sublieutenant
,
the Establishment
,
the Old Man
,
the administration
,
the authorities
,
the brass
,
the executive
,
the great
,
the ingroup
,
the interests
,
the people upstairs
,
the power elite
,
the power structure
,
the top
,
them
,
they
,
three-star general
,
top people
,
two-star general
,
tycoon
,
very important person
,
worthy
pontificate
collapse
talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"
administer a pontifical office
related words >
Apostolic See
,
Barnumize
,
See of Rome
,
aedileship
,
archbishopric
,
archiepiscopacy
,
archiepiscopate
,
aristocracy
,
bishopric
,
blow
,
bombast
,
chairmanship
,
chancellery
,
chancellorate
,
chancellorship
,
chiefery
,
chiefry
,
chieftaincy
,
chieftainry
,
chieftainship
,
cock
,
consulate
,
consulship
,
deanery
,
dictatorship
,
dictature
,
directorship
,
dogmatize
,
emirate
,
episcopacy
,
governorship
,
headship
,
hegemony
,
hierarchy
,
inflate
,
lay it on
,
leadership
,
look big
,
lordship
,
magistracy
,
magistrateship
,
magistrature
,
masterdom
,
mastership
,
mastery
,
mayoralty
,
mayorship
,
metropolitanate
,
metropolitanship
,
nobility
,
oracle
,
oraculate
,
papacy
,
papality
,
pashadom
,
pashalic
,
patriarchate
,
patriarchy
,
peacock
,
pile it on
,
pontificality
,
popedom
,
popehood
,
popeship
,
prefectship
,
prefecture
,
premiership
,
presidency
,
presidentship
,
prime-ministership
,
prime-ministry
,
princedom
,
princeship
,
principality
,
proclaim
,
proconsulate
,
proconsulship
,
protectorate
,
protectorship
,
provostry
,
provostship
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
put on side
,
rectorate
,
rectorship
,
regency
,
regentship
,
ritz it
,
ruling class
,
seigniory
,
seneschalship
,
seneschalsy
,
sheikhdom
,
sheriffalty
,
sheriffcy
,
sheriffdom
,
shrievalty
,
supervisorship
,
suzerainship
,
suzerainty
,
swagger
,
swank
,
swell
,
swell it
,
talk big
,
talk highfalutin
,
the Vatican
,
tribunate
,
vapor
,
vizierate
,
viziership
embalm
collapse
preserve a dead body
related words >
anhydrate
,
aromatize
,
blast-freeze
,
brine
,
cense
,
corn
,
cure
,
dehydrate
,
desiccate
,
dry
,
dry-cure
,
dry-salt
,
eternalize
,
eternize
,
evaporate
,
freeze
,
freeze-dry
,
fume
,
fumigate
,
immortalize
,
incense
,
irradiate
,
jerk
,
keep alive
,
keep fresh
,
kipper
,
lay out
,
lie in state
,
marinade
,
marinate
,
monumentalize
,
mummify
,
odorize
,
perennialize
,
perfume
,
perpetuate
,
pickle
,
preservatize
,
preserve
,
preserve from oblivion
,
quick-freeze
,
refrigerate
,
salt
,
scent
,
season
,
smoke
,
smoke-cure
,
stuff
,
thurify
sluggard
collapse
an idle slothful person
related words >
bum
,
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lazybones
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loafer
,
loiterer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
shirker
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
slugabed
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
noble minded
collapse
related words >
big
,
bighearted
,
chivalrous
,
elevated
,
exalted
,
generous
,
great
,
great of heart
,
greathearted
,
handsome
,
heroic
,
high
,
high-minded
,
idealistic
,
knightly
,
largehearted
,
liberal
,
lofty
,
magnanimous
,
noble
,
openhanded
,
princely
,
sublime
immortalized
collapse
related words >
aggrandized
,
apotheosized
,
awesome
,
beatified
,
big
,
canonized
,
deified
,
elevated
,
eminent
,
ennobled
,
enshrined
,
enthroned
,
exalted
,
excellent
,
glorified
,
grand
,
great
,
held in awe
,
high
,
high and mighty
,
immortal
,
lofty
,
magnified
,
mighty
,
sainted
,
sanctified
,
shrined
,
sublime
,
supereminent
,
throned
sit
collapse
be seated
be in session; "When does the court of law sit?"
sit around, often unused; "The object sat in the corner"
related words >
be gravid
,
be knocked up
,
be pregnant
,
be seated
,
be with child
,
breed
,
brood
,
bum around
,
call together
,
carry
,
carry young
,
clock
,
convene
,
convoke
,
cover
,
do nothing
,
ensconce
,
gestate
,
goof off
,
hang around
,
hatch
,
hold a meeting
,
hold a session
,
idle
,
incubate
,
install
,
laze
,
lazy
,
lie around
,
loaf
,
loiter about
,
loll around
,
lollop around
,
lounge
,
lounge around
,
meet
,
mooch around
,
moon
,
moon around
,
open
,
perch
,
posture
,
remain seated
,
rest
,
roost
,
seat
,
set
,
settle
,
sit around
,
sit down
,
slouch
,
slouch around
,
squat
,
stand around
,
summon
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