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unidealistic collapse

prevaricate collapse

long faced collapse

proposition collapse: a task to be dealt with; "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition"; (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false; an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors); suggest sex to; "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party"

realism collapse: the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth; (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived

underplay collapse: play a card lower than (a held high card)

well-balanced collapse: in an optimal state of balance or equilibrium; "a well-balanced wheel"

fib collapse: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"; tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

play down collapse

staid collapse

de emphasize collapse

temperate collapse: not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating and drinking"; (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate; "a temperate region"; "the temperate zones"; "temperate plants"

chasten collapse: restrain or temper

assertion collapse: a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

demure collapse

philosophical collapse: characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life"; characteristic of or imbued with the attitude of a philosopher or based on philosophy; "that breadth of outlook that distinguishes the philosophic mind"; "their differences were philosophical"

hardheaded collapse: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

formula collapse: a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement; a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle; a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements; a liquid food for infants

premise collapse: a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"; take something as preexisting and given; set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"

dictum collapse

own up collapse: admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"

come clean collapse

dictate collapse: a guiding principle; "the dictates of reason"; an authoritative rule; say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary"; rule as a dictator

sane collapse: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"

equivocate collapse

sedate collapse: characterized by dignity and propriety; cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"

extenuate collapse: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"

matter-of-fact collapse: concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"; not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"

tune down collapse

plead guilty collapse

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

take the edge off collapse

alleviate collapse

presupposition collapse: the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument)

assuage collapse

darkish collapse: slightly dark; "darkish red"

pragmatical collapse

showdown collapse

poker faced collapse

substantially collapse: in a strong substantial way; "the house was substantially built"

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