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101show — I. v. a. 1. Exhibit, display, present to view. 2. Exhibit to, point out to. 3. Indicate, point out. 4. Disclose, divulge, proclaim, publish, explain, unfold, reveal, discover, make known, make clear. 5. Prove, manifest, demonstrate, evince,… …
102specious — adjective formal seeming to be true or correct, but actually false: a specious argument speciously adverb speciousness noun (U) …
103hypocrisy — noun must politics be the perennial benchmark of hypocrisy? Syn: dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity; sanctimoniousness,… …
104fulsome — fulsome, oily, unctuous, oleaginous, slick, soapy are comparable when they mean too obviously extravagant or ingratiating to be accepted as genuine or sincere. Fulsome stresses a surfeit of something which in proper measure is not displeasing but …
105sophistry — *fallacy, sophism, casuistry Analogous words: plausibility, speciousness (see corresponding adjectives at PLAUSIBLE): equivocation, *ambiguity, tergiversation: evading or evasion, avoiding or avoidance (see corresponding verbs at ESCAPE) …
106barbarity — n 1. cruelty, viciousness, ruthlessness; ferocity, fierceness, savagery, ferity, truculence, fellness; brutality, brutishness, barbarism, inhumanity; pitilessness, mercilessness, heartlessness, unkindness, hard heartedness; relentlessness,… …
107baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
108claptrap — n 1. bombast, rodomontade, rant, inflation, fustian, cant, jargon, empty words, hogwash; ostentation, sensationalism, frippery, gaudiness, tawdriness, glitter, gloss; pretentiousness, pretension, pretense, false show; bluster, fanfaronade,… …
109equivocation — n prevarication, evasion, quibble, dodge, elusion, avoidance; shuffling, shifting, hedging, beating around the bush; qualification, compromise, cop out; ambiguity, amphibology, vagueness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, indeterminateness;… …
110gloss — 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,… …
