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"text": "For this young lady was not able to carry out any emotion to the full; but had a sham enthusiasm, a sham hatred, a sham love, a sham taste, a sham grief, each of which flared and shone very vehemently for an instant, but subsided and gave place to the next sham emotion.",
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"ref": "1881, Benjamin Jowett, transl., Thucydides, Oxford: Clarendon Press, VIII.64, p. 592:",
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"ref": "2024 May 23, Sam Jones, “Spanish police recover Francis Bacon painting worth €5m”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "But the artist[…] is equally famous for his drinking, gambling, his turbulent relationships, his famously chaotic studio, and for the mordant toast frequently attributed to him: “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.”",
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"sense": "fake, imitation",
"word": "真似事"
},
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"code": "lut",
"lang": "Lushootseed",
"sense": "fake, imitation",
"word": "səxʷʔiw̓adəb"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poddélka",
"sense": "fake, imitation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "подде́лка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pritvórstvo",
"sense": "fake, imitation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "притво́рство"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "simulacija",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "симулация"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prestruvka",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "преструвка"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mai⁴ mou⁶",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "迷雾"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mai⁴ mou⁶",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "迷思"
},
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"roman": "míwù",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "迷雾"
},
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"roman": "míwù",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
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"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
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"word": "("
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "bedrog"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "oplichterij"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "kwakzalverij"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "trompo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "huijaus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "petos"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "huiputus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
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],
"word": "feinte"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
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],
"word": "tromperie"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ruse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "astuce"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwindel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mogelei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Betrug"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "psevdís",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ψευδής"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trucco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "finta"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gomakashi",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "ごまかし"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mayakashi",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "まやかし"
},
{
"alt": "さぎ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sagi",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"word": "詐欺"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mošénničestvo",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "моше́нничество"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žúlʹničestvo",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "жу́льничество"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "engaño"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fraude"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "farsa"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "üçkâğıt"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "trickery, hoaxing",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "dolap"
}
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"ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCLIII. Demades the Orator.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 220:",
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"word": "мамя"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "prestruvam se",
"sense": "to cheat or deceive",
"word": "преструвам се"
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"sense": "to cheat or deceive",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "tricher"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to cheat or deceive",
"word": "mentir"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "sich verstellen"
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