hot-water (noun) hot water: trouble
Sinonime: apish, artificial,
assumed,
awkward, campy,
chichi*,
conceited,
contrived,
counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned,
fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin',
hollow, imitated,
insincere,
melodramatic,
ostentatious, overdone,
pedantic, phony, playacting,
pompous,
precious, pretended,
pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy,
self-conscious,
shallow,
sham*, simulated,
spurious,
stiff, stilted,
studied,
superficial,
theatrical, unnatural
Antonime: ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured