potemkin village

These user-created lists contain the word ‘potemkin village’.

• sionnach's Words

  contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...

• mccaff's Words

  schadenfreude, defenestration, monogamous, epipsychidion, chintz, befall, brouhaha, shenanigans, hooligans, lambasted, servitude, portcullis and 113 more...

• Not Quite The Real Thang

  masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...

• learning

  A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...

  louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...

• Catonroberts's list

  Black Cat Bastard
  Parsimonious
  Buffet Ball

  black cat bastard, potemkin village, scofflaw, pedagogy, vatic, showmanship, abnegate, thylacine, parsimonious

• Misdirector's Cut

  Hey...
  
  —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
  
        ...

  sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...

• Super-fishy

  Whut. Huh. Make it quick, I's gotsta go TV or whatever. Huh? That's too brainy.
  
  Boobs.

  holophrasis, perfunctory, desultory, sciolist, smattering, epigone, velleity, dilettante, simulacrum, shallow, one-dimensional, noddy and 68 more...

• Phraseology

  vagina dentata, pyrrhic victory, primordial soup, tilting at windmills, indian giver, potemkin village, put the kibosh on, molotov cocktail, penny dreadful, stockholm syndrome, devil's advocate, dog days and 6 more...

• Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2004

  1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
  
  As it turns out, WotD really enjoys repeating itself. Though mildly infuriating it was, I've added the fi...

  buss, roue, abecedarian, crabwise, glabrous, tarradiddle, irrupt, agrestic, cap-a-pie, fetor, olla podrida, primogeniture and 31 more...

• While Europe Slept/America Alone/Amer...

  Words gathered during my recent "current affairs" reading bender.
  
  It's not an addiction, I can quit any time I want.

  proforma, distaff, senescent, simplisme, arrondissement, brasserie, cynosure, entente, inure, elision, contrariety, calumny and 53 more...