Thesaurus / made-up
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Did he really think she had been telling him a made-up story?
I, THOU, AND THE OTHER ONEAMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR
I gather from the fashionable novelist that no man can wear a made-up tie and be a gentleman.
THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR - AND OTHERSJEROME K. JEROME
The eyebrows were made-up; it was a simple enough proceeding and made still more simple by the beaded veil.
THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INNR. AUSTIN FREEMAN
Our made-up wines are a great deal better than the natural ones in their own country.
A START IN LIFEHONORE DE BALZAC
Those were the days of paper collars and "made-up" ties, and on state occasions a cluster diamond "bosom pin."
THE CHAMPAGNE STANDARDMRS. JOHN LANE
Indeed, I believe the article a deliberate falsehood, concocted in order to sell the made-up photographs.
THE SPRING OF THE YEARDALLAS LORE SHARP
But a made-up story is one thing and a story of facts is another.
THINGS AS THEY AREAMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL
How did she happen to be made-up in this fashion at this particular time?
THE MYSTERY OF 31 NEW INNR. AUSTIN FREEMAN
I remember he did read Cluverius's Historia Universalis, and made-up his poeme from thence.
BRIEF LIVES (VOL. 1 OF 2)JOHN AUBREY
It would be just his chance to give you his made-up story about me and that Johnson girl.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILLSGEORGE C. SHEDD
WORDS RELATED TO MADE-UP
- abstract
- apocryphal
- apparitional
- assumed
- chimeric
- chimerical
- conceptual
- deceptive
- delusive
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- fabulous
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fictional
- figmental
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
- shadowy
- spectral
- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
- ad hoc
- ad-lib
- automatic
- autoschediastic
- by ear
- casual
- expedient
- extemporary
- extempore
- fake
- free
- immediate
- impromptu
- improv
- improvisatory
- improvised
- improviso
- informal
- jamming
- made-up
- makeshift
- offhand
- on impulse
- on-the-spot
- snap
- spontaneous
- spur-of-the-moment
- toss off
- toss out
- unplanned
- unpremeditated
- unprepared
- unrehearsed
- unstudied
- winging it
- ad hoc
- ad-lib
- automatic
- autoschediastic
- by ear
- casual
- expedient
- extemporary
- extempore
- fake
- free
- immediate
- impromptu
- improv
- improvisatory
- improvised
- improviso
- informal
- jamming
- made-up
- makeshift
- offhand
- on impulse
- on-the-spot
- snap
- spontaneous
- toss off
- toss out
- unplanned
- unpremeditated
- unprepared
- unrehearsed
- unstudied
- winging it
- aberrant
- abnormal
- affected
- anomalous
- assumed
- bizarre
- concocted
- contrary
- contrived
- ersatz
- extraordinary
- fabricated
- factitious
- false
- feigned
- forced
- freakish
- freaky
- imitation
- incredible
- insincere
- irregular
- labored
- made-up
- make-believe
- odd
- outlandish
- outrageous
- perverse
- perverted
- phony
- preposterous
- pseudo
- put-on
- queer
- staged
- stiff
- stilted
- strained
- strange
- studied
- supernatural
- synthetic
- theatrical
- unaccountable
- uncanny
- unconforming
- unorthodox
- unusual
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