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Bad faith is a concept in negotiation theory whereby parties pretend to reason to reach settlement, but have no intention to do so. For example, one political party may pretend to negotiate, with no intention to compromise, for political effect; for instance, extracting concessions in negotiating over legislation in order to weaken it, while ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
The noun "pretender" is derived from the French verb prétendre, [7] itself derived from the Latin praetendere ("to stretch out before", "to hold before (as a pretext)", [8] "to extend [a claim] before" [9]), from the verb tendo ("to stretch"), [10] plus the preposition prae ("before, in front"). [11]
U.S. professional wrestler Mike Rotunda, using the ring name Irwin R. Schyster (abbreviated to "I.R.S.") portrayed a dishonest tax collector and accountant.; Sylvester Shyster, a Walt Disney cartoon character introduced in 1930, is a disbarred attorney who schemes to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance; and in many comic serials by Floyd Gottfredson (his creator) he appeared scheming with ...
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Pretend, an album by Swedish singer and songwriter Seinabo Sey, 2015 "Pretending" (Al Sherman song), a song with music and lyrics by Al Sherman and Marty Symes, 1946 "Pretending" (Eric Clapton song), a song written and composed by Jerry Lynn Williams, 1989 "Pretending" (Glee song), a song from the US TV series Glee
Pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian [1] [2] [3]) is a pejorative colloquialism describing a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by professing to be a citizen of a Native American or First Nation tribal nation, or to be descended from Native American or First Nation ancestors.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.