Words similar to put-on

Example sentences for: put-on

How can you use “put-on” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I suspect that the word has long existed in a netherworld between interjectional utility and outright put-on.
Carrey's Kaufman immediately understands the put-on and laughs.
He refused to wink at the audience so as to let them know that his nonsense was a put-on.
His volcanic rages don't have the put-on quality of post- Raging Bull Robert De Niro or the preening self-consciousness of Al Pacino; nor is he a simple-minded bully boy, like Harvey Keitel.
Read Maureen Gosling's journals about the making of Fitzcarraldo , or Bruce Chatwin's essay on Cobra Verde , and you discover a rather different Kinski: an irascible, lonely, lovable eccentric, whose fits of rage come and go like squalls, whose childish enthusiasm for filmmaking and playacting bursts through the put-on cynicism.