N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882,
boasting,
charlatanism,
quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism,
teratology,
mannerism, simagree,
grimace,
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism, man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism, stiffness,
formality,
buckram,
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie,
sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame,
affector, performer,
actor,
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking,
poetaster,
prig,
charlatan, petit maitre,
flatterer,
coquette,
prude,
puritan V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs,
boast,
coquet,
simper,
mince,
attitudinize,
pose, flirt a fan, overact,
overdo Adj. affected, full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted, stagy,
theatrical, big-sounding,
ad captandum,
canting,
insincere, not natural, unnatural,
self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted,
euphuist, stiff, starch, formal,
prim,
smug,
demure, tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified,
finical,
finikin,
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
N. boasting,
boast,
vaunt, crake|, pretense, pretensions,
puff,
puffery,
flourish,
fanfaronade,
gasconade,
blague,
bluff, gas*, highfalutin,
highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism,
brag,
braggardism,
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe,
jactitation,
jactancy,
bounce, venditation|,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast, fine talking, tall talk,
magniloquence, teratology|, heroics,
chauvinism,
exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen,
exultation, gloriation|,
glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph,
boaster,
braggart,
braggadocio,
gascon,
fanfaron, pretender,
soi-disant, blower,
bluffer, foxy quiller,
blusterer,
charlatan, jack-pudding,
trumpeter,
puppy V. boast, make a boast of,
brag,
vaunt,
puff, show off,
flourish, crake|,
crack,
trumpet,
strut,
swagger,
vapor,
blague, blow, four- flush *,
bluff,
exult,
crow, crow over,
neigh,
chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood
Adj. boasting,
magniloquent, flaming, thrasonic,
stilted,
gasconading,
braggart,
boastful,
pretentious,
soi-disant,
vainglorious, highfalutin,
highfaluting,
spread-eagle,
elate,
elated,
jubilant,
triumphant,
exultant, in high feather,
flushed, flushed with victory,
cock-a-hoop, on stilts,
vaunted Phr. "let the galled jade wince", facta non verba