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HELP: When bad like good?
Hello. Excuse me for my bad english. I have a one serious question, which is very important now:
What english word is properly to use for explaining specific situation when there is bad really but false announced that there is good?
Word "hypocrisly" is correct for it or not?
May here is other english words, which is more properly to use for characterise situation above?
Please, help me!
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| 178478 |
Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Hypocrisy is "the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc, contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour." (Webster's Dictionary)
For example:
If I told you that it wasn't good to stand on top of a desk, but then later I stand on top of a desk, I would then be considered a hypocrite. I would be pretending to have some virtue when realistically I am doing the opposite.
Does that help? That was kind of difficult to explain.
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| 178522 |
Re:HELP: When bad like good?
I would say like, manipulate, or distort the situation, but I'm not sure if I understand what you're asking.
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Re:Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Jane Armitage, thank's for answer! I feel also that word "hypocrisy" is not correctly for characterise researched case. I found this word in Google's internet translator, which isn't reliable source, unfortunately.
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Re:Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Christopher Mirrore, thank's for your answer also. I think that your word suggestions is nearly but not precisionly for use to researched case.
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| 178569 |
Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Eugene,
The situation you described brings more than one word to my mind.
The first, and probably the most obvious, is the word LIE. this is a plain situation of someone LYING to another person about something.
The second word is DECEIVE. The one who advertises that something bad is good has the intention to DECEIVE someone.
Hope it helps.
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Re:Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Luiz Almeida, thank's for your answer!
I don't know I'm right or not but I think that words "lie" or "deception" is for common use as general replacements of word "false" at any false situation.
I very wait answers from native english speakers. May they know which english word is correctly to use for precisionly describe werewolf false?
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Re:HELP: When bad like good?
the word or words you are searching for depend very much so on the content in which they are to be used. if we where to choose a word for you to use then it would just be guessing. i have made a list of words that can be put into the category they are as follows:
fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper, distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; canard, fallacy, misconception, myth; falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence
they all for the most part mean the same thing, but they each have a different sub content in them as well. i hope this helps :)
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| 178618 |
Re:Re:Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Eugene, please see my reply to your "Titanic" question
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Re:Re:HELP: When bad like good?
Liz Sieben, thank you for tip! I only understand that I fully loosed in english dictionary now. %)
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