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  2. Histrionic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.

  3. Deception - Wikipedia

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    Lies: making up information or giving information that is the opposite or very different from the truth. [5] Equivocations: making an indirect, ambiguous, or contradictory statement. Concealments: omitting information that is important or relevant to the given context, or engaging in behavior that helps hide relevant information.

  4. Straw man - Wikipedia

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    A steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of a straw man argument. Steelmanning is the practice of applying the rhetorical principle of charity through addressing the strongest form of the other person's argument, even if it is not the one they explicitly presented. Creating the strongest form of the opponent's argument may involve ...

  5. Spin (propaganda) - Wikipedia

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    While traditional public relations and advertising may manage their presentation of facts, "spin" often implies the use of disingenuous, deceptive, and manipulative tactics. [ 1 ] Because of the frequent association between spin and press conferences (especially government press conferences), the room in which these conferences take place is ...

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Understatement – a form of irony, sometimes in the form of litotes, in which something is represented as less than it really is, with the intent of drawing attention to and emphasizing the opposite meaning. Universal audience – an audience consisting of all humankind. Utterance – statement that could contain meaning about one's own person.

  7. Bob Costas calls Aaron Rodgers 'disingenuous' and says his ...

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    Aaron Rodgers was disingenuous about it.” Those issues, to go along with missing games and the potential for Rodgers and the team to suffer penalties , is why Costas said Rodgers’s reputation ...

  8. Startup that went viral for ‘firing stressed employees ...

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    Just the opposite in fact—they were given a break to reset and encouraged to release their stress. It added YesMadam wanted to lead the way in creating a corporate culture that proves strong ...

  9. Sarcasm - Wikipedia

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    The use of strategies which, on the surface appear to be appropriate to the situation, but are meant to be taken as meaning the opposite in terms of face management. That is, the utterance which appears, on the surface, to maintain or enhance the face of the recipient actually attacks and damages the face of the recipient. ...