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put-on

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adjective

put-on

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noun

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Williams points out the pressure women put on each other and the competitive nature of women in the workplace. Katy McFee, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 Harper dressed as Aphrodite the goddess of love, putting on a long blonde wig and holding a dove in one hand. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a comedy that uses the breakfast wars as the jumping-off point for a high-camp exercise in nostalgic lunacy. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 May 2024 As Patrick lopes through the film intruding into people’s space with his strength and his shameless habit of stealing their snacks (and dropping his shorts), Guadagnino over-indulges in close-ups of O’Connor scrunching up his mouth in a put-on smirk. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for put on 

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“Put on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/put%20on. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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