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put-onadjective lacking in natural or spontaneous qualitya put-on goofy voice affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony(also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealisticdouble-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuousexaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical(also theatric)cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simperingconventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, woodenartful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, truehonest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretendingeasy, effortless, smoothextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied put-onnouna display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceivemy bravery was all a put-on—I was scared out of my wits act, airs, charade, disguise, facade(also façade), front, guise, masquerade, playacting, pose, pretense(or pretence), semblance, show impersonation, performance, portrayalimage, personaappearance, color, glosscamouflage, cloakaffectation, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, fraud, guilebetrayal, double cross, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, infidelity, perfidy, treachery, treason, unfaithfulnessexcuse, pretext bluntness, candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, openheartedness, outspokenness, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardnessartlessness, genuineness, naïveté(also naivete or naiveté) a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effectfor a moment, I couldn't tell if the commercial was serious or a deadpan put-on of ads by other insurance companies burlesque, caricature, parody, rib, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty lampoon, mockery, satirecomedy, farce, humor, sketch, slapstick, squibdistortion, exaggerationimitation, impersonation, mimicking put onverbto place on one's personI put on a coat and shoes to go outside don, slip (on or into), throw (on) apparel, array, attire, bedeck, bedizen, bundle up, caparison, clothe, doll up, dress, garb, rig, robe, suit, trick, uniformoverdress doff, remove, take off disrobe, strip, undress to describe or express in too strong termssome critics are putting it on when they say it's the best comedy ever made exaggerate, overdo, overdraw, overstate color, elaborate, embellish, embroider, magnify, pad, play up, stretchfudge, hedgemelodramatize, overemphasize, overplay, sensationalize understate belittle, minimize, play down to present a false appearance ofput on a show of anger just for fun act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pass (for), pretend, profess, sham, simulate dissimulate, impersonate, let on, masquerade, play, playact, poseforge, imitatecamouflage, conceal, disguise, maskfeintmalinger make believe in the 15th century |