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affectation

noun

An artificial manner adopted to create a particular impression.

Artificial manner

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pose pretense pretension affectedness

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ingenuous

adjective

Innocent, candid, and free from artifice, sometimes naively so.

Candid and artless

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artless innocent candid guileless unaffected unsophisticated

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subterfuge

noun

A deceptive device used to conceal a purpose or evade a difficulty.

Deceptive device

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ruse trick stratagem pretext deception artifice

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