crocodile tears

Main Entry:
crocodile tears []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fake and insincere tears
Synonyms: Academy Award performance, affected tears, fake tears, false show of emotion, false tears, insincere tears
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Main Entry: deceit
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
ad captandum, adulterated, artificial, babyshed, barefaced, bastard, bogus, brummagem, calophantic, catchpenny, catchy, colorable, contraband, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceived, deceiving, deceptious, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, disguised, double-dealing, elusive, ersatz, factitious, fair-weather, faithless, feigned, fraudulent, fucatory, ill-gotten, illegitimate, illicit, illusive, illusory, insidious, make-believe, meretricious, mock, parlous, pawky, pinchbeck, predatory, prestigiatory, prestigious, pretended, pseudo, rotten at the core, scamped, sham, simulated, so-called, sophisticated, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, tinsel, tricky, trumped-up, two-faced, unconscionable, unscrupulous, unsound, unsupported by evidence, untrue, wildcat
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