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| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usu. defamatory to someone. |
| caricature |
a depiction, in a drawing or verbal description, that deliberately exaggerates or distorts some features of the person or thing represented to produce a comic or grotesque appearance. [1/4 definitions] |
| cut |
to deliberately absent oneself from. [1/25 definitions] |
| cute |
deliberately or self-consciously charming or clever; precious. [1/3 definitions] |
| false |
deliberately untrue or deceptive. [1/7 definitions] |
| fine print |
the part of a document, such as a contract or policy, that is set apart from the rest by smaller type, or is deliberately written to obscure some possibly disadvantageous aspect. |
| flout |
to show scorn or contempt for, esp. by openly or deliberately disobeying. [1/3 definitions] |
| lowball |
to give (someone) a deliberately understated price without intending to honor it. [1/3 definitions] |
| low profile |
a manner or form designed not to attract attention; deliberately inconspicuous presence or activity. |
| lying1 |
deliberately untruthful; dishonest; false. [1/3 definitions] |
| media event |
a public event that is deliberately staged in order to gain publicity from the news media. |
| murmur |
to say something in a deliberately subdued voice, as to voice a complaint. [1/6 definitions] |
| obstructionist |
anyone who deliberately prevents the ordinary conduct of affairs. |
| on purpose |
not by accident; deliberately. |
| op art |
a style of abstract, usu. hard-edged art in which forms, spaces, and colors are deliberately arranged to produce optical ambiguities and illusions. |
| pitchout |
in baseball, a ball deliberately pitched outside the plate in anticipation of an attempted steal by a base runner. [1/2 definitions] |
| plagiarize |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own (the ideas, words, or the like) of someone else. [2/3 definitions] |
| power up |
to rapidly and deliberately attempt to increase one's energy or power, as if by connecting to a power source. [1/2 definitions] |
| prevaricate |
to lie, mislead, or conceal the truth deliberately. |
| propaganda |
information or statements of opinion that are deliberately circulated among the public in order to persuade the population to accept a particular point of view, esp. one in favor of or opposed to a particular movement, cause, or doctrine. |
| provocation |
something that causes anger or irritation, esp. deliberately. [1/2 definitions] |
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