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noun • any place of pain and turmoil | ||||||||
| 30% | 12 | Imagining a situation or outcome to be more perfect than it truly is | ||||||
noun • a portrayal of something as ideal • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad • something that exists only as an idea | ||||||||
| 30% | 12 | To misinterpret or misread a situation as being more positive or negative than it truly is | ||||||
noun • an appraisal that is too high • a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high verb • make too high an estimate of • assign too high a value to | ||||||||
A Truly Unpleasant Situation Crossword Clue
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THEPITS which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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THEPITS
Updated: October 11, 2023
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