religious belief, mixed blessing, opinionist, fading away, false teeth, information warfare, suicide pact, well behaved, suspended sentence, hatchet job, fictional character, nypd, writ large, drying up, nerve cell, propping up, material witness, placebo effect, artificial skin, fervour, wedding ceremony, background noise, death spiral, body odor, double entendre, sexual morality, breeding ground, political prisoner, run aground, fall asleep, deal breaker, population explosion, marriage proposal, corpus juris, highly sensitive, murder conviction, knife edge, city room, sniff out, rainy season, set ablaze, spruced up, cold spell, abortion pill, liven up, sexual relationship, tax avoidance, marginalisation, carve up, dirty joke, ben trovato, cut corners, world view, agonistes, rape conviction, decisive action, laozi, loosen up, wasting time, foray into, sexual pleasure, birthday gift, negative feedback, blood disorder, horse race, nerve gas, ballot box, plea bargaining, arthur schopenhauer, insanity plea, downside risk, lateral thinking, run afoul, false witness, sandalwood tree, dishonour, flesh wound, mystery novel, credibility gap, meal ticket, get rid of, ettu, good manners, spy satellite, shoring up, garrison keillor, enlarged heart, gender gap, skin condition, sexual discrimination, x chromosome, parcel bomb, sperm count, rigour, reading room, khyber, hindoo, character assassination, princelet, brain surgeon, favouritism, hunger striker, pretense, pretext, pretences, excuse, pretexts, subterfuge, pretenses, scruple, excuses, affectation, pretension, semblance, disguise, sophistry, chance, apology, claim, doubt, hope, shew

affectation, appearance, make-believe, mannerism, masquerade, pose, show

assume, feign, sham, simulate

artificiality, color, colour, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, semblance

feigning, guise, pretending, pretense, pretension, pretext, simulation