put-on
Example Sentences
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Even the husky TED-talking voice Holmes used to invest herself with greater seriousness and authority was a put-on.
From Los Angeles Times
To do so would seem like a silly put-on — like a weird grief pantomime.
From Salon
“People trust me because I’m not a put-on.”
From Los Angeles Times
But he writes with sensitivity too, from painterly depictions of the Palm Desert and Salton Sea to riffs on the Talmud that suggest Cohen’s faith isn’t entirely a put-on.
From Los Angeles Times
But it was just a tactic — what Kanai called a “put-on.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
