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  • 51pretense — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, affectedness, air, airs, airs and graces, alibi, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, attitudinizing, authority, birthright, blind, bluff, bluffing, charade, cheating, claim, cloak,… …

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  • 52pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …

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  • 53public image — Synonyms and related words: affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent character, appearances, artificiality, display, exteriors, external appearance, externals, facade, false front, false show, feigned belief, front, gaudiness,… …

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  • 54put on — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, accelerate, act, act a part, administer, affect, affectation, affected, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apocryphal, apply, apply to, artificial, artificiality, assume, assumed, back answer, banter,… …

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  • 55sham — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffery, Tartuffism, act, act a part, acting, adulterated, affect, affectation, affected, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ape, apocryphal, apology, appearance, artificial, artificiality, assume, assumed …

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  • 56show — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Prospero, Tom show, accompany, accord, account for, acting, advertise, affect, affectation, affectedness, afford, afford proof of, air, airiness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, allege,… …

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  • 57sociability — Synonyms and related words: Bohemianism, accessibility, affability, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, approachability, big mouth, candor, casualness, common touch, communicativeness, congeniality, conversableness,… …

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  • 58forwenednes — f ( se/ sa) a being unaccustomed to a thing, unusualness, novelty; unusualness, novelty, strangeness, affectedness in the choice of words; Want of moderation, pride, haughtiness, arrogance, insolence [insolentia] …

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  • 59air — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. atmosphere (See air); mien, bearing, appearance; tune, melody (See music). v. t. ventilate (See air); proclaim, broadcast (See publication). II Earth s atmosphere Nouns 1 …

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  • 60airs — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. pretension[s], facade. See affectation, vanity. II (Roget s IV) pl.n. Syn. affectation, affectedness, pretense, show; see pose , pretense 2 . See Synonym Study at pose . III (Roget s 3… …

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