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  • 111spurious — a. 1. Illegitimate, bastard. 2. Counterfeit, supposititious, meretricious, deceitful, sham, false, mock, pretended, feigned, clap trap, fictitious, unauthentic, make believe, adulterate, bogus, pinchbeck, brummagem …

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  • 112Brum — Noun. The City of Birmingham. From the word brummagem …

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  • 113artificial — adj 1. man made, manufactured, constructed; synthetic, ersatz, plastic, pseudo, simulated, imitated, imitation, ungenuine, Inf. phony; unauthentic, Sl. hyped up, sham, make believe, bogus, mock, fake, specious, brummagem; spurious, bastard,… …

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  • 114bagatelle — n trifle, trinket, knickknack, gimcrack, gewgaw, toy, piece of junk; bauble, gaud, brummagem, kickshaw, Inf. doodad; tinsel, clinquant, ornament, spangle; pinchbeck, sham, imitation, simulation, fake, counterfeit …

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  • 115fake — v 1. counterfeit, invent, forge, fabricate, manufacture, Brit. coin; concoct, hatch, create, make up; lie, fib, tell a lie or fib or story. 2. falsify, alter, modify; whitewash, disguise, color, paint a rosy picture, doctor up, gloss or varnish… …

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  • 116gaudy — adj 1. garish, flashy, Sl. flash, loud, bold, painted, hard, Inf. honky tonk; tawdry, meretricious, cheap, dime store, tinselly, brummagem, gimcrack, trumpery, trashy, Inf. chintzy, Inf. tacky, Sl. rinky dink; tasteless, in bad taste, indelicate …

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  • 117gewgaw — n gimcrack, Inf. whim wham, bauble, trinket, knickknack, doodad, bagatelle, trifle, kickshaw, brummagem, toy, plaything; gaud, showy orna ment, spangle, sequin, tinsel, clinquant; worthless finery, frippery, Archaic. trumpery, junk; bric a brac,… …

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  • 118gloss — I n 1. shine, polish, luster, sheen, brightness, glitter, shimmer, glow, luminousness; glaze, varnish, veneer, lacquer, enamel, japan. 2. front, facade, camouflage, mask, disguise; pretense, masquerade, deceptive show, show, surface, semblance,… …

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  • 119glossy — adj 1. shiny, lustrous, glowing, burnished, polished, waxed, glassy, glistening, shining, silken, smooth, sleek, satiny; velvety, elegant, finished. 2. deceptive, fraudulent, meretricious, slick, factitious; false, unreal, insincere; artificial,… …

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  • 120imitation — n 1. imitating, mimicking, mimicry, Zool. mimesis, apery, monkeying; impersonation, mocking, parody, take off, caricature, burlesque, travesty. 2. simulation, representation, replica, repetition, duplication, copy, facsimile; semblance,… …

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