truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith
shady; underhanded; questionable
in (e.g. secret); with (e.g. success)
followers; subordinates; being under someone's command
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; having no intention of ...
bold; audacious; impudent; unashamed; unabashed
to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended
remarks; comments; way of talking; speaking style; excuse; topic (of conversation)
tedious talk; impertinent talk; repetitious talk; saucy speech; pretentious statement
high; noble; refined; advanced
to distinguish oneself; to stand out
concealment; hiding; covering up; suppression
to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing
to come to know; to perceive; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of)
obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude
base; mean; vulgar; despicable; low
worldly-minded person; materialist; uncultured person; philistine; vulgar person; snob
motive power; driving force
ability to get things done
mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly
enmity; antagonism; hostility; feuding (with); being at odds (with)
putting together (e.g. opinions); gathering; collecting; aggregating; summarizing; integrating
to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)
person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired
(police) detective; criminal matter
corruption (esp. by a government employee); bribery; graft
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
underworld; underside of society
bare livelihood; subsistence
business; trade; operations; sales
hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff
time axis; time basis; timeline
root; origin; source; cause; basis; foundation
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
spontaneous discharge; sudden outburst; accidental gun discharge