conceit, artifice, silliness, staginess, hokum, artificiality, insubstantiality, implausibility, corniness, facetiousness, verisimilitude, subterfuge, knowingness, melodrama, absurdity, pomposity, melodramatics, triteness, absurdism, deus ex machina, cleverness, metafiction, machination, farce, grandiloquence, gimmickry, archness, unoriginality, bathos, hackwork, inanity, grand guignol, slightness, sophistry, whimsy, pretension, narrative, nefariousness, pompousness, clownishness, inconsequentiality, banality, literalness, didacticism, pedantry, sappiness, legerdemain, woodenness, dumbness, smarm, sentimentalism, hokey, roundelay, indeterminacy, plotline, wryness, believability, fakery, salaciousness, pathos, flibbertigibbet, pretentiousness, grotesquerie, mundanity, adorability, convolutions, shtick, ennui, flummery, lunkheaded, simulacrum, gimcrackery, stylisation, nabokovian, denouement, zaniness, trope, vapidness, drollness, fictions, pastiche, mendacity, shavian, non sequitur, chicanery, innocuousness, abjection, mawkishness, fictionalization, slyness, inarticulateness, archaism, dullard, high jinks, superfluity, weirdness, tawdriness, hilarity, glibness, meaninglessness, schmaltz, affectation, contrivances, expedient, stratagem, expedients, gadget, gimmick, handiwork, device, disguise, instrument, invention, ruse, inventions, ploy, ruses, sleight, artifices, camouflage, combination

gadgetry, gimbals, plant, wangle, wangling

injector, mechanical

arrangement, conception, design, excogitation, innovation, organisation, organization, scheme, strategy, system

appliance, contraption, convenience, devisal, dodge, gizmo, lash-up, widget