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Definition: JUDAS KISS |
JUDAS KISS1. A deceitful and treacherous kiss. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Judas Kiss (A). A deceitful act of courtesy. Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss. "So Judas kissed his Master, And cried, `All hail!' whenas he meant all Harm." Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI., v. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti. |
Improbity | Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal. |
Untruth | Profession, empty words; Judas kiss; (hypocrisy); disguise; (mask). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Judas Kiss (1998) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
judas kiss | 14 |
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| Language | Translations for "JUDAS KISS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | целувка на юда, измяна (apostasy, betrayal, double dealing, perfidy, treachery, treason, turnabout). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | udasjay isskay ihanet (betrayal, defection, infidelity, sellout, treachery), hainlik (betrayal, dastardliness, disloyalty, foul play, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason, ungratefulness, villainy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-j-k-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: jassids. | |
-3 letters: jassid. | |
-4 letters: disks, dusks, jauks, judas, kadis, sadis, saids, sakis, skids, skuas. | |
-5 letters: aids, asks, auks, dais, daks, disk, diss, dusk, jauk, kadi, kids, kiss, sadi, said, saki, sass, skas, skid, skis, skua, suds, suss. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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