put-on

Main Entry:
put-on [n. poot-on, -awn; adj. poot-on, -awn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: façade
Synonyms: beard, bluff, cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, exterior, face, fake*, false colors, false front, front, frontage, gloss, guise, look, mask, masquerade, phony*, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, veil, veneer, window dressing, window-dressing
Main Entry: affectation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression
Synonyms: air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation
Antonyms: naturalness, simplicity
Main Entry: affected
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: changed in a bad or artificial way
Synonyms: apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural
Antonyms: ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured
Main Entry: airs
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: affectation; pretended behavior
Synonyms: affectedness, arrogance, false front, front, haughtiness, hauteur, mannerism, ostentation, pomposity, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, show, superciliousness
Antonyms: personality, realness, truthfulness
Main Entry: artificial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended; affected
Synonyms: assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural
Antonyms: genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: assumed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended
Synonyms: affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious
Antonyms: genuine, natural, real
Main Entry: caricature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated description in writing, drawing
Synonyms: burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation, lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche, put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty
Main Entry: charade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretense
Synonyms: deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, pantomime, parody, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, travesty, trick
Main Entry: cheat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong
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