 2 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
airs
noun: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
airs with me" [syn: {pose}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "airs":
affectation, affectedness, airs and graces, arrogance,
artificiality, clannishness, cliquishness, contempt,
contemptuousness, contumely, despite, disdain, disdainfulness,
disparagement, exclusiveness, facade, false front, false show,
feigned belief, front, hauteur, highfaluting ways, hypocrisy,
image, insincerity, insult, lofty airs, mannerism, mere show,
pretense, pretension, pretensions, prunes and prisms, public image,
put-on, putting on airs, ridicule, scorn, scornfulness, sham, show,
side, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness,
sovereign contempt, stylishness, superciliousness, swank,
toploftiness, unnaturalness, vain pretensions, vaporing
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